Catholic Church’s record on clerical child sexual abuse censured
Senior clerics found to have downplayed or dismissed allegations in damaging reports
Senior clerics found to have downplayed or dismissed allegations in damaging reports
Seán Brady hits milestone with Eamon or Diarmaid Martin most likely to be next Irish clerics to receive ‘red hat’
Ex-AG says he and senior ministers were kept out of talks on 2002 accord
Concrete measures called for by Pope Francis amount to a paltry result
Prelate, due in Dublin this week, is criticised in a damning US report
Church and aid bodies wield corruptible power over vulnerable adults and youth
Vatican photograph from 2007 captures church past and questions its future
High-profile prelate opted to resign following damaging allegations concerning seminarians
Woman who feels calling to priesthood says daughter asks: ‘How can you follow such an institution?’
Cardinal Kevin Farrell: World Meeting of Families will be ‘the beginning of a new process’ in the Church
Cardinal Desmond Connell represented a church of a different time, losing its touch, in troubled transition
Patsy McGarry looks at the career of the former Archbishop of Dublin
Irish-born Kevin Farrell one of 17 new appointments made by the pontiff
Bishop Farrell has served the church in the USA for the majority of his priestly ministry
Allegations of sexual harassment led prelate to miss out on the conclave that elected pope
Some see Pope Francis’s latest project for the poor as a gimmick and not of any value
Additional 15 cardinals shows move away from Catholic Church’s eurocentric heart
Pope describes administration’s failings as 15 sicknesses
Primate led through ‘most turbulent period since the Penal Laws’
Eamon Martin becomes Catholic Primate of All Ireland
Former pope Benedict makes surprise appearance at St Peter’s Basilica
Huge crowds throng St Peter’s Square for a Mass to inaugurate papacy
First vote black smoke has conclave go into a second day
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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