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Rome, Italy, May 31, 2010 / 11:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The first big phase in the renewal process of the Catholic Church in Ireland begins next fall. On Monday, "high profile" Church officials with "great specific experience" from the UK, Ireland and North America were named to head the Apostolic Visitation the Holy Father promised Irish Catholics last March. A statement delivered personally by Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi to journalists in the Holy See’s Press Office on Monday outlines Pope Benedict’s nominations for the Visitors to the four metropolitan archdioceses of Ireland and the country's seminaries and religious houses.He...