President of Caritas Syria, Bishop Antoine Audo SJ, describes conditions in Aleppo, ravaged by four years of conflict.

On second day of Turkey visit, Pontiff prays with Grand Mufti at Blue Mosque and later prays with Ecumenical Patriarch and celebrates Mass for Catholic communities.

First Sunday of Advent –1-12-2014

Gospel: Mk 13:33 ‘Beware, keep alert, you do not know when the time will come.’

Reflection: Waiting [...]

Schools will have an opportunity to address outstanding maintenance issues - Fr Tom Denihan of CPMSA.

Muslim, Jews and Christians must enjoy same rights and respect the same duties so they see each other as brothers and sisters.

Government Social Housing Strategy welcomed but 20% more people sleeping rough in November alone.

Dean Sammy Crooks, who died in a road accident in 1986, staged his first Christmas sit-out for charities in 1976, establishing a tradition continued by all his successors.

ADVENT 2014

Advent/Prechristmas times

These Advent has many aspects; entertainment, gifts, cards toys, trees, home/office parties, Santa visits, reindeers, decorations, holidays,

Extending civil marriage to include a relationship between people of the same sex will change the meaning of marriage.

Vandalising of five metre steel cross sparks debate over whether Christian symbols should be placed on public landmarks.

Bill will hold sex buyers to account for their key role in fuelling organised crime and perpetrating abuse against victims of trafficking and exploitation.

Saint of the Gutters had a great love of Christmas and Advent in particular.

To shake off its malaise, he said, Europe needs to recover a sense of values and mission, one foundation for which is religious conviction.

It will take at least 18 months until the new plan begins to deliver the first homes for people in need.

Fr Robert Reed is the CEO of a major Catholic television network in the US. He has just published his first book. He talks about the saints, priesthood, renewal and 'Renewed'.

Families urged to donate the cost of a meal for an imaginary Gazan guest in a bid to raise €150,000 for the Al Ahli Hospital.

Co Waterford Cistercian Abbey has been producing religious cards since 1955 and now has a dedicated premises for card-making.

New features incorporated into the calendar include a ‘Thought for Today’ voiced by contributors including members of the hierarchy.

Direct provision is a "desperately unjust system that condemns families and children to live awfully restricted lives for many many years" - Mgr John Byrne.

Ordination of Fr Marius O'Reilly on Sunday is the second for the diocese this year.

Fr Brian Starken CSSp recounts how an inter-religious ceremony was held at an ‘Ebola cemetery’ in Sierra Leone to honour the virus' victims.

At their peak, the PBVM's schools in the town were catering for 1,000 pupils.

New choir was formed just over seven weeks ago to meet the challenge of learning the music for a performance on 29 November.

Celebrating the restoration of the Dublin church, Archbishop says the parish can begin to set priorities for its pastoral mission in the years to come.

Between now and Christmas, in the region of 140,000 people throughout the country will be visited by SVP volunteers.

The illness is having a huge impact on Sierra Leonian culture - SLIP.

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Kieran O’Reilly SMA as Archbishop of Cashel & Emly following the resignation of Archbishop Dermot Clifford on grounds of age.

Archbishop Eamon Martin concelebrates Mass in Italy to mark 1,400th anniversary of death of St Columbanus.

But proximity to RTE's bandwidth making it more difficult for Spirit to roll out service on FM across whole of Ireland.

Undocumented’s family life in the US often curtailed by daily stress and constant fear of arrest and deportation.