The Pro-Life Campaign has insisted that The Irish Times has “little or no credibility” when it comes to reporting on abortion after new documents reveal how the paper tried to play down an instance when it published an abortion related story which was found to have no basis in fact. On August 23, 2013 a front-page story…

The head of the Catholic Principals Association (CPA) has welcomed Archbishop Eamon Martin’s “clear and unambiguous assertion” that “no young person should be turned away from a Catholic school on the basis of their mark in an entrance test”. In a homily launching Catholic Schools Week in the North, the Archbishop of Armagh said “in…

Shane McGauley and Michael Achums from St Joseph's National School, Dundalk, Co. Louth try on Archbishop Eamon Martin's mitre and zucchetto at the Mass to launch Catholic Schools Week in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh. Photo: Liam McArdle

Michael Fisher The Bishop of Clogher has made a special appeal at a Mass in Co. Monaghan for anyone with information about Columba McVeigh, abducted and killed by the IRA in 1975 and then secretly buried, to come forward. At a Mass in Carrickroe, near Emyvale, Bishop Liam MacDaid urged anyone who might have “even a small shred of evidence” about where…

An inter-denominational festival aimed at promoting cross-community friendship and global generosity has been launched by Belfast’s Lord Mayor. Now in its third year, the 4 Corners Festival, which runs from January 29 to February 8, grew out of conversations between Fr Martin Magill, parish priest at Sacred Heart parish and Rev. Steve Stockman of Fitzroy Presbyterian…

Dioceses across the island of Ireland have begun to ask parishes to provide feedback on the Lineamenta discussion document from last year’s extraordinary synod on the family, in order to collate a report from the Irish Church in advance of the second session of the bishops’ synod in October. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, who…

A cleric at the forefront of social justice campaigning has accused the Government of further excluding people who are already clinging to the margins of society in a new review of State policy. A review of Government policies released by Social Justice Ireland this week, which analyses how Ireland is performing on reaching its national…