Fr Jorge Bergoglio often described Ireland affectionately as "the green country", recalling his first impressions of its ...

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Every generation”, said ex-taoiseach Leo Varadkar last week to an enthusiastic Irish-American audience in Philadelphia hosted ...

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Pope Francis spent a short sabbatical in Dublin in 1980 and came back in 2018 for an official visit - it was the first time a ...

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As Pope Francis looked out across the Phoenix Park in Dublin in August 2018, the gloomy grey skies and the sparsely scattered ...

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Pope Francis made history in 2018 when he became the second pope to visit Ireland, but he had already spent a few months in ...

Fr Jorge Bergoglio, then a little-known Jesuit priest from Argentina, was sent to the Jesuit community at Milltown Institute ...