THE ‘Our Father’ – one of the Catholic Church’s most revered and best-loved prayers – is set to change at the behest of Pope Francis who believes its wording portrays God in a false light as the...
Pope Francis has denounced priests and members of religious congregations who abuse children as the "tools of Satan".
Pope Francis's recent visit to Ireland has been widely compared to that of Pope John Paul II in 1979 as an indication of how the place of...
A group representing survivors of clerical abuse around the world has demanded that three top cardinals who are due to attend the World Meeting of Families in Dublin next week stay away.
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Tánaiste Joan Burton has said Ireland can accept up to 5,000 refugees over a period of time.
A CATHOLIC diocese is embroiled in a row over the training of a layman for the permanent diaconate, despite a bishop's announcement that plans to train men for the ministry were being suspended.
Former President Mary McAleese has criticised Pope Francis’ comments on smacking children, warning it could signal a turning back of the clock in the church’s attitude to corporal punishment and children’s rights.
VICTIMS of clerical sexual abuse have called on Pope Francis to accept Cardinal Sean Brady's resignation immediately.
Pope Francis is expected to accept the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady as Primate of All Ireland in the coming months.
ARCHBISHOP of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has upped the pressure on the Government on the Magdalene Laundries issue by pointing out that it gave wrong information on its role to a key UN body.
APN News & Media Ltd., the publisher of more than 100 newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, fell by the most in more than three months in Sydney after it said profit dropped 53pc on a slump in advertising revenue.
"We can be so judgemental and hurtful towards those whom we decide have failed and those who drift outside our self-made ideas of respectability," he told hundreds of people who took part in the Good Friday walk to the papal cross in the Phoenix Park.
The latest scandal to hit the Catholic seminary in Maynooth has implications not only for a college with a venerable 200-year history, but it also appears to be tearing apart the country's bishops, while forcing some of the Irish Church's most loyal Catholics to question a few sacred cows.
Pope Francis surprised the Irish Church when he announced the resignation of two Irish bishops.
Some parishes in a Catholic diocese that was once described as "the most evil diocese in the world" following child sex abuse revelations now have no altar servers due to fears over the safety of young people.
One of the country's most outspoken Catholic bishops has warned the Government against any attempt to repeal the Constitution's pro-life 8th amendment, describing any such move as "anti equality".
The Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Charles Brown, told the Irish Independent that the restructuring of the Irish hierarchy would continue this year with new appointments in the pipeline for a number of dioceses.
CARDINAL Sean Brady spoke of "the struggle between the culture of life and the culture of death" as he stressed his ongoing opposition to abortion legislation.
Amid the cloying dust, blaring car horns and beggars' wails that echo through the ancient streets of Kathmandu, Nepal, a familiar sound emerges: the strains of pop star Psy's 'Gangnam Style'. In front of a crowd of giggling teenagers, a 50-year-old woman dances, blond hair flying, arms waving.
IRELAND's most senior Catholic prelate has claimed that the abortion legislation is a 'Trojan horse' which heralds a much more liberal and aggressive abortion regime.
The Labour Party has hit back at Catholic bishops' claims that the new abortion legislation will throw the floodgates open for terminations.
