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Posts tagged 'abuse'


3 September 2018

‘Sorry, we didn’t know’

Rachel Andrews

In 1979, as he celebrated a Youth Mass at Ballybrit Racecourse, Co. Galway, Pope John Paul II told the young people of Ireland that he loved them. It was a significant moment, and, for a time, it emboldened an authoritarian Irish Catholic Church. It was also the beginning of the end.


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