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Ask many people browsing through popular books on Celtic Christianity to describe the Celtic Church and several well-known ideas will probably emerge. They might state, for instance, that the Celtic Church did not acknowledge papal authority and was less authoritarian and bureaucratic than the Roman Church because it was guided by holy abbots, rather than bishops. Depending on their interests, they might add that it allowed women more power than was customary at the time, it was environmentally friendly, it was continually influenced by native paganism, or that the Irish had a special link with the spiritual realm. Simply stated, most would agree that the Roman and Celtic Churches were inherently dissimilar and in conflict throughout the Middle Ages until the Roman Church conquered and suppressed the Celtic tradition.1
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Corning, C. (2006). Introduction. In: The Celtic and Roman Traditions. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601154_1
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