"Without allowing the concerns and realities of the poor to seep into its veins and consciousness, Church attempts at renewal are but organisational changes."
Clerical abuse survivor, Marie Collins, and former president, Dr Mary McAleese, reject Pontiff's stance on corporal punishment for children.
Dublin seminar provides concrete suggestions on how to structure the pastoral care of the sick in a parish in today’s world.
Targeting babies with 'fatal foetal abnormalities' will threaten all children with disabilities, warns Every Life Counts.
Archbishop Kieran O'Reilly SMA shares his thoughts on his own consecration to God in advance of his installation in Cashel & Emly.
Perverse achievement for Hilary Mantel and BBC Drama to make Thomas Cromwell a flawed hero and St Thomas More a scheming villain: Bishop Davies.
“Are we happy to sacrifice two early human lives to make a third?” MP asks of the process involved in creating an embryo with biological material from three people.
Domestic violence campaigners call on people to spend their money on women’s shelters rather than a trip to see the film of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.
Everything possible must be done to rid the Church of the scourge of the sexual abuse of minors.
After a massive €30 million renovation programme, using the latest building technology and the skills of master craftsmen and contemporary artists, St Mel’s Cathedral will be officially rededicated on Sunday 17 May 2015.
Ten charities honoured including Trócaire, Christian Aid, Habitat NI, Tear Fund and Concern.
Headless woman, with no arms or legs, and in bondage, produced by artist interested in sadism selected by Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture.
Fr John Cribben is believed to have fallen while dusting windows in his local church to save his parish money.
Tullamore parish team has been linking into the network of catholic parishes all over America via a letter writing campaign.
Three other martyrs recognised: Polish Franciscans, Michal Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strazalkowski, and Italian Fr Alessandro Dordi.
Although root causes vary, the most important is an entrenched culture of impunity.
"You need robust rules and referees that will stick to them,” Family and Media Association warns.
“On my own I won’t get very far, but together, people and religious and with my brother priests and Bishop Willie, we will do great things for God” - Fr Cullinan.
Christian ethic of self-giving and generosity challenges the Church, which is called never to be self-promoting: Archbishop Martin.
Limerick priest Fr Alphonsus Cullinan replaces Bishop William Lee who retired on health grounds in October 2013.
Bishop Nulty suggests religious congregations consider having an ‘Open House’ in an effort to allow society gain a deeper understanding of their charism and life.
500,000 people without health care following closure of 150-bed facility run by St John of God in Lunsar.
Canon Stephen Neill, who discovered Obama's Irish links, says he will miss ecumenical spirit of Moneygall.
Denying the existence of God solves nothing and certainly doesn’t remove the problem of suffering or explain where it comes from: Fr Brian McKevitt.
Paper prepared for Pontifical Council for Culture’s plenary assembly on women warns plastic surgery can “amputate the expressive possibilities of the human face".
New services will open on 16 February in an area under the colonnade of St Peter's Square.
