Thursday 4 March, 2021
Pope Francis is set to meet the revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf.
Archbishop Eamon Martin also urged Ministers to allow more people to attend funerals of loved ones during the pandemic.
‘My mother had been conditioned to feel grateful for the sanctuary of the home as she had committed a terrible sin in having sex outside of marriage and they would take care of her bastard child, me.’
RTÉ has received thousands of complaints about the comedy sketch, which was broadcast on New Year’s Eve.
The clip is still currently available on the RTÉ player.
It found Cardinal Nichols “seemingly put the reputation of the church” above his duty to sex assault victims.
The commission is due to submit its final report today, over five years after it was set up.
Mary Harney shares her personal story on a day where the fate of records of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was debated on the Dáil floor.
The four archbishops have requested a meeting with Micheál Martin.
The new advice says bishops “should” report claims – but critics have said it should be mandatory.
The former Irish president warned of the damaging impact the church is having on Ireland younger LGBT community.
Religious services can resume during Phase Three which begins on Monday 29 June.
Churches, mosques and other places of worship have been closed for several weeks.
Church leaders said that masses would be cancelled in response to the public health crisis caused by coronavirus.
Almost 940,000 pupils are enrolled in primary and post-primary schools in Ireland.
The reform is part of changes being introduced by the Church today.
The Buffalo bishop has been accused in US media of hiding the names of accused priests
A 2015 review found several institutions had no public appointment or tendering procedure for the employment of chaplains.
The victims were children and adolescents aged between four and 17.
€30 million in State funding has been spent on the site over the last two decades.
The move is part of discussions to address a shortage of priests in the Amazon region.
Abortion will be decriminalised in the North if the collapsed assembly is not restored by 21 October.
Pell is currently serving a six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s.
The US-based group is holding a conference today in Dublin.
The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic drinks.
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin was the target of Varadkar’s comments and he’s now responded to the apology.
Thousands are expected to contact the hotline, while face-to-face interviews with victims will be held at a later date.
He said that religious services would no longer be used to “glorify” Dublin drug cartels’ images.
Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, Marriage and Burial are now rites of passage but do we understand their theological foundations, writes Shane Dunphy.
A recent survey shows Catholic schools want preparations for Confirmations and Communions to take place outside the classroom.
The law declares that anyone who has knowledge of abuse is obliged to report it to the Church.
Two sons of a wealthy Sri Lankan spice trader are among the suspected suicide bombers.
He called on the Church to avoid returning to attitudes it had shown in the past.
Benedict has written a 6,000-word essay for Klerusblatt, a German monthly magazine for clergy.
It was claimed earlier this week that pupils would not celebrate Christmas at Educate Together schools.
It has been claimed by one gaelscoil that Irish greetings like dia duit would no longer be allowed.
Ricardo Ezzati, archbishop of Santiago, is the highest-ranking Catholic official in Chile.
Fr Patrick Peyton taught Americans to recite the Rosary from the 1940s onwards.
France’s highest-ranking Catholic official failed to report sex abuse by a priest.
