Dozens of Catholic schools in Dublin face closure within two years unless a funding crisis is urgently addressed, the Church has warned. Anne McDonagh, director of the Dublin Archdiocese Education Secretariat, told the Oireachtas Committee on Education that a “significant percentage” of its 446 primary schools were at risk of shutting down because of cuts…

The Vatican is being urged to pressurise religious congregations that ran Magdalen laundries here to contribute to compensation and redress for former residents. Reform Alliance TD Lucinda Creighton said it would be a “positive step” towards helping heal some of the hurt caused by religious orders involved in the running of the laundries. She told…

Act breaches religious freedoms

Dwindling numbers forces action in Down and Connor

Cooking for a cause

Famed sister faced down Billy the Kid

King Felipe invites Pontiff to Spain

Former prelate still wanted for questioning

The Catholic Church and Church of England will ‘do battle’ this September, but only to decide whose cricket team is best on the field of play. On September 17, the Vatican St Peter’s team will travel to England’s Kent County Cricket Club at Canterbury Cathedral for a match fixture against a team drawn from members…

No decision yet on the inclusion of county homes