Do You Believe in T He Resurrection? ; It's the True Meaning of Easter but While a Bishop Insists It Is Historically Well Founded, an Illusionist Suggests Christ Was Performing a Magic Trick, an Undertaker Says It's All Made Up and a Playwright Who Can't Decide Says the Idea of It Helps Him Every Day of the Year [Eire Region]

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'HE was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven.' So go the words of the Common or Apostolic Creed, a prayer we utter without thinking when we stand in the pew on

Sunday morning.

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Do You Believe in T He Resurrection? ; It's the True Meaning of Easter but While a Bishop Insists It Is Historically Well Founded, an Illusionist Suggests Christ Was Performing a Magic Trick, an Undertaker Says It's All Made Up and a Playwright Who Can't Decide Says the Idea of It Helps Him Every Day of the Year [Eire Region]

But the words of the prayer and the reality of the Resurrection, an immortal, miraculous act - rising from the dead - can mean different things to different people. And although we might all regard ourselves as

Christian, irrespective of which of its chapters, few of us could reconcile that faith with immortality.

So today, on the eve of Easter Sunday, SHEILA FLYNN tested the faith of some of the country's best-known figures with some surprising results....

BISHOP WILLIE WALSH

The Diocese of Killaloe I believe that death is not the end of life; it's the beginning.

That belief is founded on t...

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