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The “spiritual Olympics” of the Catholic Church will be staged in Ireland next week, attracting thousands of pilgrims from around the world.
Final preparations are under way for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress, which will begin with an open-air Mass for 25,000 people on Sunday.
Some 230 cardinals and bishops and 12,000 priests and deacons will attend events in Dublin throughout the week of celebration. …
The Irish Survivors of Child Abuse (Soca) plan to stage a “dignified” protest outside the RDS on Sunday to highlight its disgust at Cardinal Brady’s refusal to step down as Primate of All Ireland over the recent Father Brendan Smyth scandal.
Cardinal Brady acted as a note-taker during a probe into the notorious paedophile priest and was given a list of children’s names who were being abused – but failed to inform Gardai and their parents.
Spokesman John Kelly said the protest will be about the Vatican interfering with Irish sovereignty and its laws.
“The Ireland of 2012 is not the country of 1932 when fear of and deference to the Church was the norm,” said Mr Kelly.
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