Star often attends two Sunday Masses

Prelates will travel to Gaza and Bethlehem

More Americans than ever are opposed to executions, writes Paul Keenan

A priest who found himself at the heart of a major child abuse probe in America has had his child endangerment conviction overturned on appeal. Monsignor William Lynn, 62, a former secretary for clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, was convicted in June 2012 for his role in reassigning an abusive priest, Fr Edward Avery,…

Religious leaders in the Central African Republic (CAR) are working to thwart attempts by some to use violence as a spark for further violence there, the United Nations has reported. Following an intervention in December by French troops and UN peacekeepers to counter the violent rule of Seleka rebels in the CAR, UN monitoring teams…

“We must start off with the right question. It is not, ëIs there a government interest in not recognising alternative types of relationships as marriage?í, but rather, ëIs there a public interest in societal recognition and regulation of the only kind of relationship that brings children into the world?í Every human society in history has…

Al Qaeda militants are being blamed for the deadly Christmas bombings in Iraq which claimed at least 37 lives. The Christian community in Baghdad was targeted on Christmas Day in three near-simultaneous bombings at St John’s Catholic church, where 26 died, and at a marketplace in the nearby Assyrian Christian district. The car bomb at…

Marie Collins has tipped Dublin’s Archbishop Martin for a role in the newly-announced safeguarding commission to advise Pope Francis