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The Catholic Church is using a controversial legal tactic in a bid to be excused from a civil damages claim lodged in the Victorian Supreme Court involving Cardinal George Pell.

“Isn’t church supposed to be open to all?,” the singer wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post.

The attack in the Co Londonderry village was blamed on the Provisional IRA, although the group never claimed responsibility.

Article by Marian Venini, originally published on El Planteo.

Pope Francis crisscrossed Canada this week delivering long overdue apologies to the country’s Indigenous groups for the decades of abuses and cultural destruction they suffered at Catholic Church-run residential schools.

Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the "evil" of Canada's residential schools, wrapping up his week-long "penitential pilgrimage" to Canada.

Pope’s six-day tour of Canada is ending in northern territory of Nunavut, where he met residential school survivors.

Pope Francis has said his recent trip to Canada showed he may one day need to retire if his health fails him. Although he was recently forced to deny rumours that he was about to step down, the 85-year-old Catholic leader has previously left open the possibility of some day…

"Every day is another day without justice and I worry that I won't live to see victims and families get the justice they deserve."