“Churches may be closed and the celebration of sacraments postponed but the Church is not closed. It is very much alive” - Dr Brendan Leahy.

Less than a quarter of Irish Catholic teenagers surveyed were able to correctly name the Trinity as “Father, Son and Holy Spirit”, says survey author.

“We have Catholic schools because parents want them. It is parents who must insist that the religious ethos of our schools is respected and not abandoned.”

New catholic preschool & primary school religious education curriculum launched as well as religious education programme 'Grow in Love'.

Grow in Love programme, replacing Alive O, will be rolled out in Catholic primary schools from September 2015.

Seeing the nativity scene will help students of St Raphael’s Special School to visualise and understand the Christmas story.