The former Administrator of Derry diocese has been appointed a Parish Priest in the clerical changes which take effect this week. Fr Francis Bradley took over as administrator last year when the previous administrator, Eamon Martin, was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh. He became the Priest-in-Residence in Buncrana after the appointment of Bishop Donal McKeown…

Jarlath Burns insisted that he was not making a political statement by marching in this year’s ‘Pride in Newry’ festival.

The Church should make “unconventional couples” feel at home instead of making them targets of “de facto discrimination,” the leader of the Italian bishops’ conference has said. “Couples in irregular matrimonial situations are also Christians, but they are sometimes looked upon with prejudice,” said Bishop Nunzio Galantino, an apparent reference to divorced and remarried Catholics.…

Hundreds attended the annual Catholic Youth Conference organised by the Legion of Mary in Dublin.

Catholic hospitals have caved in to Government pressure

Bishop Donal McKeown has said Northern Ireland is still a place where “confrontation rather than conciliation is the name of the game”.

RTÉ’s Would You Believe programme, broadcast at 10:30pm on September 14, will follow the preparation and production of the Passion in Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick, this year. The play attracted 6,000 people to watch a re-enactment of the final hours of Jesus’ life on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. The event, planned for 12 months, brought…

The grant to LGBT Galway, €45,000 over three years, was approved by the society’s Maureen O’Connell Fund

Pope continues to offer his prayers and encouragement

Emily Logan said it was “much more worrying” that a higher percentage of children were likely to be abused by a family member or somebody within their community.