Irish Priests Face Increasing Workload Pressure

‘One Saturday, we had a funeral, a wedding, a first communion and then mass. It was too much’: Ireland’s priests are feeling the pressure

‘When my mother died, I had to ring around to try and find a priest to cover for me. I know priests who went back to work the weekend after the death of their mother or father because there was no one to cover for them,” Fr Tim Hazelwood says.