The Catholic Church in the Ireland of Joyce's day was not without degrees of differentiation, which is illustrated by Joyce's perception of the difference between "the Jesuits and other branches of the faith in his native Ireland"" [62]. ... Stephen recognizes the prophetic quality of Dedalus with its association to that of Daedalus, "the fabulous artificer ", [Joyce: 130] in which Daedalus fashions wings to enable himself and his son to fly in order to escape from the island, which ends in Icarus, who flies to close to the sun, melting the wax on his wings and plunging to his death ...

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The Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical meeting, was the first in almost a century. With it came the introduction and implementation of changes that rocked every aspect of Church life. Lasting from 1962 to 1965 under the leadership of two of the most influential Popes to ever take up an office in...

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