2019 was the year in which the number of registered charities passed ten thousand. Over half (53 per cent) of them, are in the ‘benefit to the community’ category and the next biggest grouping is ‘advancement of education’ while relief of poverty or economic hardship makes up 8.7 per cent.

"Good governance demands that the prevailing clericalist culture of secrecy must end," says Soline Humbert.

Abductions in the state have become “a big business” though some kidnappings are for religious reasons, – Rev John Joseph Hayab.

My thoughts turn to families in our own diocese who have welcomed the birth of a child during this past year and to those who are expecting a baby in the near future – Bishop Kevin Doran.

“It will be impossible for us to hold on to the ways we lived parish in the past. The parishes of tomorrow will be ‘communities of intentional disciples’ sustained by committed and formed lay people.”

Parish priests from the Diocese of Jalingo will take up appointments for a period of three years with the option of staying for longer.

Four men to be ordained this weekend for the dioceses of Armagh, Cashel & Emly and Clogher.

“From the beginning he was a teacher, and a very good one by all accounts. The word most often used by people was kind. Quiet in disposition and very discreet.”

“We need to keep alive among us a spirit of care and support for our priests, as numbers diminish, priests grow older and pastoral expectations increase”: Bishop Treanor.

59-year-old Fr Francis Kelleher paid €4,000 to three men to threaten his nephew.

Up to 600 parish representatives join Bishop Buckley and members of Cork & Ross' religious orders to mark the Year for Consecrated Life.

“We put ourselves at the service of others especially those most in need in our society: the poor, the sick, the vulnerable, those who feel alienated from God”.

595 men expected to be ordained to the priesthood in 2015, an increase of 24.7% on last year’s figure of 477, according to US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Fr Alphonsus Cullinan will be ordained Bishop of Waterford & Lismore this Sunday.

“If you want to be a fisher of people you have to push the boat out": Bishop Donal McKeown.

Bishop Leahy issues open invitation to young people and all others to participate in the renewal of the Church locally through the Limerick Diocesan Synod.

US Supreme Court refuses to excuse priest from testifying in court case.

Bishop Ray Browne warns it is by no means certain that good times will soon return.