President Higgins had a private audience in the Pope’s library in the Vatican on Thursday. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA Wire Pope Francis faces a difficult task in moving the Catholic Church towards being more inclusive of women and LGBT people, President Michael D Higgins has said after meeting the pontiff. The private audience in the Pope’s library in the Vatican on Thursday was one of a series of engagements by the President on a trip to Italy this week. “He faces grave difficulties in the institution of which is head. I get a sense of that nearly every time I meet...