Among hundreds of attendees at the Alpha Ireland Conference last weekend were recently ordained Bishop Michael Router, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, Bishop Denis Nulty, and the Most Reverend Dr Michael Jackson.

“Thank God I had the opportunity to do something to help community relations in Northern Ireland.”

Fr Brian D’Arcy has called for the Church to allow married men and women to be ordained as priests.

It offers an opportunity to reaffirm our personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation...

Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmiero favours letting individual bishops make nullity decisions after careful consideration, based largely on the credibility of the couple.

Orthodox Church in Ireland sees faithful grow from 250 in 1993 to 45,000 in 2011.