International marriage experts warn synod delegates that children need marriage and their mothers and fathers to raise them together.

German Protestant Church's special envoy for 500th anniversary of Reformation says Churches have to see the creative power of confessional difference.

Despite threats and harsh jail terms, Redemptorist News continues to defy government censors.

Synod will take place over three days bringing together 400 delegates who will set out a path for renewal for the Church in Limerick.

Nine students currently studying for the priesthood in the diocese - one of the highest number in the country.

Charities urge Government to develop and implement a plan for sustainable public services.

Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri says married couples will have a prominent role in the Synod.

Bishop Conry confesses he has been “unfaithful to my promises as a Catholic priest”.

PLC warns private members' bill aims to strip away any "remaining legal protection for the unborn child to create a regime where abortion is available on request."

Catholic Grandparents Association founder, Catherine Wiley, to give a testimony highlighting the vocation of grandparents.

Focolare flows from "charism of unity" says Pope and calls on movement to "go out in spirit of dialogue".

Bishop del Portillo made several visits to Ireland and, as a child, he learnt his first words of English from an Irishwoman.

Priests, Religious and lay people promote faith and mission alongside all things agricultural.

"It is widely recognised that Irish missionaries led the way for much of what the Irish Government, through Irish Aid, is now doing in the area of development assistance."

Fr Vincent Mulligan is the first Irish person to be awarded the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers’ honour.

Challenge for the Synod is to be “open to ways of applying the primacy of mercy to particular situations while remaining faithful to fundamental truth."

President Higgins highlights the importance of people supporting local employers, businesses and produce.

"We all bear responsibility to protect and value creation for the good of future generations.”

Call for nurses to be given "rightful social and economic recognition” at XIX World Conference of Catholic Nurses Guild.

Following St Paul's admonishment in 55AD, ‘Let the women be silent in the churches’, the equality between women and men in the early church began to change.

Sr Margaret Muldoon urged “to turn down her invitation to the synod in favour of a married family person, even at this late stage.”

City of Liberia put under quarantine resulting in 75,000 people being sealed into a densely-packed slum.

Renowned journalist John Allen Jr suggests papacy of Francis represents a Kairos moment for the whole Church.

No timetable set for implementation of withdrawal process which Order says is due to declining membership.

Sunday Independent poll shows 56% support referendum to repeal 8th Amendment; 60% support abortion in the case of suicide; 69% support it in case of rape.

"May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against ... the right to life and the right to religious freedom!"

Presenting its 2015 pre-Budget Submission, Dóchas renews call to the Government to meet target of 0.7% ODA.

Head of Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation sees hope for Irish Church in "great participation" of laity in Church.

Patriarch calls for protection zone for Christians in northern Iraq under UN mandate and intervention to enable those displaced by IS to go home.

Pope Francis would like to see an ‘opening’ on church teaching on divorced and remarried according to Cardinal Walter Kasper.