Nurses Tara Curran, Ann Breen, Alice Griffin, Erica Keogan and Helen Dunnebarron preparing to leave Dublin airport on Sunday morning on a diocesan pilgrimage which saw seven specially chartered flights carrying 2,000 pilgrims to Lourdes. Photo: John McElroy

“I am blessed I have a strong faith, and I have an army in Heaven that kick me out of bed every day.”

Tributes paid to Cardinal after Pope accepts resignation

The findings also reveal that people who are married with children are generally more satisfied than people who own flashy sports cars or too many houses.

His cause for canonisation as a saint was officially opened in 2002.

The Diocese of Baton Rouge has asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a Louisiana Supreme Court decision that a priest may be compelled to testify as to what he heard in the confessional in 2008 concerning an abuse case. The legal step is the latest in a case involving Fr Jeffrey Bayhi, pastor of…

The sisters may have been victims of an armed robbery

The bishop says that at least 90,000 Catholics are displaced