“Pray we do, for we dare claim: In God we trust," says Cardinal Timothy Dolan leading the openning prayer of this week's star-spangled Republican Party Convention in North Carolina.

“Helping and caring for others is a beautiful example of God’s closeness in times of need and his living mercy active in our lives."

“More than in the Vatican Gardens, with their beauty, your goodness is the place where I dwell: I feel protected” Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI tells Pope Francis.

Fr Shane (27) is the newest priest in Waterford & Lismore and one of fifteen ordinations to the Irish Church this summer in what has been a bumper year for vocations.