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24th August 2018
11:59am BST

He said that many people in Ireland feel excluded from the Catholic church due to the church's treatment of women in the magdalene laundries, child abuse cover ups, and the church's history with the LGBT community.
This comes after Pope Francis wrote a letter to all members of the Catholic church concerning clerical abuse and past attempts at cover ups.
He condemned the abuse and asked God for forgiveness, saying:
"We have realised that these wounds never disappear and that they require us forcefully to condemn these atrocities and join forces in uprooting this culture of death."Varadkar will be meeting the Pope in Dublin Castle on Saturday.
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