Ireland hosts the Pope

The World

Pope Francis will visit Ireland this weekend, a country where close to 80 percent of the population consider themselves Catholic. But it won’t be an easy visit because of the ongoing scandal of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The World’s Matthew Bell reports. 

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