The Government introduced their housing strategy nine months ago and every single month since then the number of homeless people keeps rising and rising and rising. We need them to go back to the drawing board, said Fr Peter McVerry.

Fr Peter McVerry appeals for emergency legislation to prevent the banks and landlords from evicting families, particularly those with children, into homelessness.

Dr Kevin Doran hits out at banks for pushing families into homelessness and contributing to the pressure on marriages.

Bishops mark International Human Rights Day with a call to redouble efforts to prevent more deaths of homeless people on our streets.

In the current debates about Catholic schools there is often so much emphasis on ownership and rights to ownership from the Church side.