“I hope today will be the day we forgive,” said a middle-aged Irish man on his way to attend the closing Mass of World Meeting of Families with Pope Francis Aug. 26.
Around 300,000 attendees at Phoenix Park, many of them Irish, stood in the cold rain to attend the Mass celebrated by the head of the Catholic Church, a monumental moment that hasn’t happened since Pope John Paul II visited the same park in 1979.
However, people say this Ireland is not like the one of 39 years ago.
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