“These guidelines hope to provide you with some information to help you make a well-informed decision about donating your organs after death,” said Bishop Paul Mason.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life tells Intercom "the Roman Curia is overloaded with clerics, and it shouldn’t be like that.”

According to RTE’s referendum exit poll, almost 9 out of 10 No voters were Catholics while 7 out of 10 Yes voters were also Catholics.

“Many people fear social suffering because most people who are suffering in an incurable way lose their friends as people do not visit them any more. That is the most severe thing for them.”

If the inclusion of people with disability is a characteristic of a civilised society, why would we accept discrimination against unborn people with disability?

“Human beings that are vulnerable and unable to consent should not be exposed to research which involves significant risk to themselves,” says Chairman of Irish bishops’ consultative group on bioethics.

Couple, who were both born with dwarfism, refused to listen to the doctors and Nathan Jr was born healthy.

Some of his most significant comments concern the role of women in the Church.