ACCORD, the Catholic marriage advisory and counselling agency, yesterday denied reports it was embroiled in a dispute over files wanted for the investigation into clerical child sex abuse in the Dublin Diocese.

The Catholic Church's marriage advisory service is reportedly refusing to co-operate with a request from the Archbishop of Dublin to trawl through confidential files for allegations of abuse.

Hundreds of young people set off from Dublin this morning, to join an estimated one million worshippers for a special Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict in Germany.

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