President of All Hallows Fr Patrick McDevitt has insisted that the mission of the college will continue, despite it being put on the market for sale. The Dublin-based Catholic third-level institution announced in May its intention to close its doors after 172 years due to a lack of funding and falling student numbers. At the…

“There’s much lawlessness now, and we have no protection or security.”

Ukraine's Catholic bishops have warned their country is now "flowing in blood," and urged Western governments not to become "accomplices in the sin of murder" by failing to support it. "This peaceful sovereign nation has been subjected to a direct military intervention by a northern neighbour – hundreds of units of heavy weaponry and technology,…

Poverty, violence and changing social norms are causing the disintegration of the family structure across Latin America, church workers in the region said in advance of the October gathering of bishops in the Vatican to discuss pressures families face. From liberalising marriage laws and persistent domestic violence to migration trends sending a record number of…

Church encounter persuaded hardliner to work with Sinn Fein

The stark contrast is set to further focus attention on the lack of strategy to attract vocations in Ireland

Calls for a review of the direct provision system