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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In August 2018, Pope Francis visited Ireland for the Catholic World Meeting of Families in Croke Park. The Argentinian priest ...