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By Megan Specia Reporting from Dublin They came forward in small ... have reported being sexually abused at schools run by Catholic orders in Ireland. Their accounts only hint at the magnitude ...

A priest who helped organise Pope Francis’s visit to the Republic in 2018 has recalled watching the pontiff compose his personal apology to victims of abuse in the Catholic Church. Father Tim ...

Clogher Diocese will welcome its first new entrant for the priesthood in six years this September. The former teacher, aged in his 20s, will be entering the propaedeutic year of discernment next ...

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A priest who helped organise Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland in 2018 has recalled watching the pontiff compose his personal apology to victims of abuse in the Catholic Church. Father Tim ...