At a time when Ireland's beleaguered Catholic Church is losing adherents, the number of humanist wedding ceremonies conducted in 2012 increased by 30 percent from the year before. And this shift away from church-based ritualizing of life events includes not just weddings–humanist funerals and baby-namings have increased by even higher percentages.
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