“Time devoted to prayer can never become an alibi for neglecting our neighbour in need,” says Pope Francis.

At a Mass to celebrate the visit of the relics of St Anthony, Archbishop Martin criticised “unscrupulous people” who feel that “their financial supremacy can authorise them to take life through violence and exploitation”.

Bishop John Buckley led mourners at the funeral Mass of Sr Thérèse Marie O’Connell who spent fifty-seven years as a Poor Clare at the French shrine.

Hundreds of thousands of devotees of popular Italian saint invited to participate in feast day devotions via a live internet broadcast of Mass from the Basilica in Padua on 13 June.

Author and former alcoholic “saddened” by decision to move statue of sobriety priest from Dublin's O'Connell Street.

Franciscan delighted by huge numbers who felt Anthony to be a presence in their lives.

Relics will visit Dublin, Wexford, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Belfast between 17 and 24 October.