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An Post plans to introduce secular Christmas stamp

Thursday December 24 2009

An Post is likely to introduce "a secular option" in its range of traditionally religious Christmas stamps next year.

A united front cannot conceal the divisions

Saturday December 12 2009

IT is a symbol of the might of the Catholic Church. But yesterday in the shadow of St Peter's Cathedral, the cracks in the Irish Catholic Church began to show -- and to widen.

Vatican will not accept liability for payout costs

Wednesday November 25 2009

THE Vatican has never accepted financial liability towards victims of clerical child sex abuse.

Laity stand in for priests as vocations plummet

Thursday July 02 2009

THE Catholic Church said yesterday that lay people will celebrate church services "more frequently" in the future as vocations fall.

Brady urged to ban priest's 'anti-EU' paper from church

Thursday November 06 2008

CARDINAL Sean Brady has promised to ask bishops to monitor non-official Catholic Church literature being distributed in churches.

Church takes Padre Pio barb to Press Ombudsman

Sunday May 25 2008

ONE of Ireland's favourite saints is the subject of a gripe to the agency that deals with media wrongdoings.

Traditionalists hail Pope's approval of Latin Mass

Monday July 09 2007

TRADITIONALIST Catholics in Ireland have welcomed Pope Benedict's approval of their use of the old Latin Mass which was replaced in the 1960s by English and other national languages.

'Daily Star' editor in public spectacle over privacy laws

Sunday August 06 2006

DAILY Star editor Ger Colleran is not a man known for mincing his words on privacy or other issues. This hasn't endeared him to Martin Long of the Catholic Communications Office.

Parishes to amalgamate as church survives on a wing and a prayer

Sunday June 25 2006

LARISSA NOLAN
IRELAND'S dire clergy shortage means parishes will have to be amalgamated and mass services cut, according to Catholic church officials. With almost half the clergy aged between 50 and 70 - and only a handful of ordinations a year - the priesthood is literally dying out.