“CI News was a channel for many really good things that church organisations were doing both in the promotion of faith and in the promotion of justice.”

“Thanks to this digital technology many of us have been helped to remain in ‘spiritual communion’ with Christ and with one another,” said Archbishop Eamon Martin.

In ‘normal conditions’, the CSTV website usually has about two million visitors a month, but this weekend the audience for online Parish TV more than trebled, said Church Support Group CEO Tony Bolger.

The number of parishes using Church Services TV to broadcast live Mass increased by almost a third during 2017.

We stand for universal truths and values that are drawn from our personal encounter with the joy of God’s love.

Fr Alan McGuckian SJ will be Ireland’s first Jesuit bishop.

Sydney-based Institute of Theological Education and Bray-based communications and technology services company to offer high quality distance theological education online in Ireland and the UK.

“We have, since the 'getgo' traditionally been innovators."