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A new series of reports into Irish Catholic dioceses on Wednesday revealed horrific child sex abuse by priests and mistakes by Roman Catholic Church authorities in dealing with them.Some of the cases detailed by the Church's own child protection watchdog occurred as ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - In the week that Ireland announced it was closing its embassy to the Vatican, the pews at Dublin's main Roman Catholic church are less than a third full for Sunday morning mass. There is no one under 30 in ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Catholic Ireland's stunning decision to close its embassy to the Vatican is a huge blow to the Holy See's prestige and may be followed by other countries which feel the missions are too expensive, diplomatic sources said on ...

The Catholic Church in Ireland launched a new app on Monday for young men who are thinking of joining the priesthood, taking a technological leap to reverse four decades of declining vocations.The free "Vocations" app is designed to help users reflect on ...

The Vatican on Saturday acknowledged "grave failures" in handling a child sex abuse scandal involving priests in southern Ireland as Dublin insisted the Holy See helped block investigations.In its long-awaited response to an official report commissioned by the Irish government, the Vatican ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch commission investigating sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests has found an unusually high number of deaths of minors at a church-run hospital in the early 1950s, the public prosecutor said.A statement by the prosecutor's office on Tuesday ...

Dublin investigation: Vatican tried to stop pedophile Irish priest from being defrockedA previously censored chapter from Ireland's investigation into church cover-ups of child abuse says the Vatican tried to stop Irish church leaders from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest.The chapter, released ...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Almost 2,000 people have declared themselves victims of sexual and physical abuse while they were minors in the care of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands, an independent commission said Thursday.The investigation into abuses dating back to ...

Saint Patrick is probably one of the most famous and celebrated figure of the early Christian Church. He was a Roman, but born in Britain, and had contacts with the Irish from early adolescence1. Nevertheless, he has been the patron saint of ...

In 1998 the Ulster Society published a 164 page paperback entitled " Try telling that to the people of the Former Yugoslavia who were carved up like roast meat by European Union authorities dominated by those still harbouring prejudices from past conflicts ...

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Topic: Ireland

Irish Church reports reveal horrific child abuse

Irish Vatican closure saddens dwindling faithful

Vatican stunned by Irish embassy closure

Irish Church launches app for would-be priests

Vatican admits 'grave failures' over Ireland abuse scandal

Dutch sex abuse panel probes 1950s Catholic deaths

Vatican tried to keep Irish child rapist as priest

Dutch want Catholic Church to address abuse cases

Pilgrimage: Saint Patrick's purgatory

The twelfth: What it means to me

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