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Death of Pope Francis: Derek Mooney leads RTÉ’s coverage to intermittently jaw-dropping effect
The former president Mary McAleese delivers an ambivalent snap verdict on Francis’s papacy, suggesting he didn’t do enough ...
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Colm O'Gorman: I admired Pope Francis — but we must be honest about his failings
The Church has covered up abuses for centuries. Our failure to acknowledge that popes colluded in it is part of the problem ...
‘I couldn’t believe the bravery’: Abuse survivors pay tribute to Michael O’Brien and his ‘powerful’ RTÉ testimony on child sex abuse
Survivors of sexual and physical abuse have paid tribute to Mr O’Brien, the sex abuse survivor and former lord mayor of ...
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Fergus Finlay: Pope Francis — A good man but a failed papacy
Poor and marginalised people mattered to the late pope, but not so much to the Catholic Church — just look at its response to ...
Pope Francis’s plea for forgiveness in 2018 ‘a great mark of the man’
The Archbishop of Dublin has said that Pope Francis’s plea for forgiveness in 2018 for abuse scandals in the Catholic Church was an example of the “great mark of the man”.
Pope Francis’ visit to Ireland ‘powerful moment’ for abuse survivors
Pope Francis’ visit to Ireland six years ago was said to have offered a “powerful” opportunity for survivors of clerical ...