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A million young Catholics reportedly attend Holy Year youth festival
Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics descended on Rome for the Youth Jubilee, which kicked off on Tuesday evening with a mass by the Pope in St Peter's Square. They gathered for a vigil on Saturday night ahead of a Sunday mass held by the Pope.
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Ireland begins search for 800 infants buried at former church-run home
"Mother-and-baby homes" were institutions in Ireland where unmarried pregnant women and their children were housed. They were characterised by harsh conditions, high mortality rates and a lack of support for mothers and children.
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Medieval Hungarian library battles beetle infection to save national treasures
The abbey at Pannonhalma was founded in 996, four years before the establishment of the Hungarian Kingdom. Sitting upon a tall hill in northwestern Hungary, the abbey houses the country's oldest collection of books, as well as many of its earliest and most important written records.
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'It is impossible to invent something as exotic as the Vatican'.
In an interview with Euronews, writer Javier Cercas describes Pope Francis as disruptive. Proof of this is the invitation he received from the Vatican to write a book, despite his declared secularism. Thus was born the novel 'El Loco de Dios en el fin del mundo' (God's Fool at the End of the World).
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French PM Bayrou denies covering up Catholic school abuse scandal
French Prime Minister François Bayrou faced a high-stakes parliamentary hearing on Wednesday evening, testifying under oath about what he knew or didn't know regarding decades of alleged abuse at a Catholic school in southwestern France.
