Neither Ireland’s Catholic Primate nor Pope Francis have ever denied Communion to anyone
Pontiff has been adamant bishops should avoid acting in a way ‘that is not pastoral’ and decline to ‘enter the political sphere’
Pontiff has been adamant bishops should avoid acting in a way ‘that is not pastoral’ and decline to ‘enter the political sphere’
Bantry parish priest would not give Colm Burke communion and told him ‘you have been excommunicated’
Fr Gabriel Burke would not give communion to Colm Burke who says priest him told he had been ‘excommunicated’
Nuns shun Vatican and say they follow controversial clergyman in row with links to purchase of monastery
Proposals for assisted dying legislation undermine ‘fundamental principle of civilised society’, says pastoral letter
Tilson case decision by the Supreme Court in 1950 relating to the care of three children in a mixed-religion marriage was widely misinterpreted by the public as an enforcement of the Catholic Church’s Ne Temere decree
Kerry writer John Moriarty, who died in 2007, called for ‘the abandonment of the western way of life’
Ardal O’Hanlon, Tommy Tiernan and Patrick Kielty among group of comedians to have audience with Pope Francis
Great majority of allegations arose from incidents that took place in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
Molly Aitken’s Bright I Burn tells the story of the fierce and ambitious Alice Kyteler, and how ‘creative writing is a way of revoicing the past’
We’re better off now so less in need of supernatural explanations, but a family First Communion still felt significant
Pontiff (87) is alleged to have made remark during meeting with bishops in Rome last week in discussion over admission of gay men to Catholic seminaries
Rite & Reason: Newman wrote, “if I were an Irishman, I should be (in heart) a rebel”
Vatican says old approach was no longer useful or viable in the internet age
Doctrine office overhauled norms first issued in 1978, arguing that they were no longer useful or viable in the Internet age
Very little has changed in terms of doctrine, even if the background music is softer and less dogmatic
Just 8% of children in the North attend integrated schools. 90-year-old former priest David Rice says helping to change this is his final battle
Some 25% of children in 2023 raked in more than €800. A further 10% received €1,000. But maybe we should all just relax about it
Sr Rose Carmel McNamara left Dublin for England at 17 and finds herself helping the poor in Romania at 82
Film director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of pope
Study finds capacity to foster Catholic ethos of schools ‘shrinking’ with decline in those able to deliver faith-based education
Modernity is causing a drop-off in people identifying as Catholic, but the Polish clergy also bears some responsibility
‘Our country has changed, our lives have changed,’ Dermot Farrell told event in Donnybrook
Throughout the world Catholic schooling is highly regarded, but in Ireland feelings are mixed
Fr Eddie Elliott, originally from Dublin’s Ringsend, spent over 40 years in Mexico with Divine Word Missionaries
St Mary’s in Dublin 7 is first Catholic school to come under Educate Together patronage in State as part of pilot programme
Church of Ireland has already merged many of the 26 dioceses established in 1111 AD at the Synod of Ráth Breasail
Move is described as most radical change to Irish church structures in more than 900 years
During Communion and Confirmation season the situation is particularly bleak. The sense of othering is worse when students are from non-Irish backgrounds
And that’s just one of the big problems Simon Harris will face as taoiseach
Francis skipped night-time Via Crucis procession on Friday
Rite & Reason: The resurrection is not an event of the past - it contains a vital power permeating this world
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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