“The answer is not to deprive the migrant of housing; the answer is to solve your housing problem.”

Pontiff pays tribute to the “saints who live next door” describing the doctors, volunteers, religious sisters, priests and shop workers who continue to perform their duty as “heroes”.

“We don’t want to go back to a new hard border right behind my bishop’s residence.”

“While affirming that celibacy is a gift for the Church, it is asked that for the most remote areas of the region, the possibility of priestly ordination of elders ... even those who already have stable and consolidated families, be studied in order to ensure the sacraments to accompany and sustain Christian life.”

Fr Daniel O’Leary, who died on 21st January, said he wanted to point out that one of the fall-outs of a mandatory celibate life is "the violence it does to a priest’s humanity, and the wounds that it leaves on his ministry”.

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

Deacon Roger Stone receives British Empire Medal for services to seafarers.

“I have received a detailed signed retraction and admission that lies were told and a signed apology. My legal fees were paid and a generous donation was paid to my nominated charity, Aware.”

The website which had shown retouched photos of a purported meeting between Japanese doctor and Pope Francis has removed the images.

"For 175 years The Tablet has been a distinctive model of building up communication within the Church."

International Catholic weekly is the second oldest surviving journal in the UK after The Spectator.

“Church renewal is coming primarily through an emphasis on collegiality and the restoration of the synodal process to what it was intended to be in Vatican II" - Austen Ivereigh.

Study carried out by a legal expert.