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World Service,2 mins

Michael McLoughlin sang for the Pope forty years ago

Heart and Soul

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Forty years ago as a young man Michael McLoughlin sang at mass in front of hundreds of thousands of people as Pope John Paul II visited Ireland, but he won’t be going to see Pope Francis. Like many Catholics in this devout country here his faith isn’t as important to him as it was.

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