The Holy See has named Archbishop Bernardito C. Auza as its new Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. The former Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti replaces India’s Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt. A native of the Philippines, Archbishop Auza was ordained in 1985 and is a veteran Holy See diplomat, having served in Bulgaria,…

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Inaugural Evangelium Ireland conference held in Maynooth.

Confessor to report serious crime

Members of the Bethany Survivors group have called on the Minister for Children to include a number of Protestant-run mother and baby homes in the Commission of Investigation. As he draws up the proposed terms of reference for that commission, prompted by the revelations around the Tuam mother and baby home, Minister Charlie Flanagan met…

New media body unveiled in Rome

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the government there to enact a range of measures to protect religious minorities in a move described as “historic”. In a ruling arising from the September 2013 suicide attack on the All Saints church in Peshawar which claimed 85 lives, Chief Justice Tasaduq Hussain Jillani ordered immediate action in various…

Some of the estimated 800 participants who attended the National Charismatic Renewal Conference at the RDS in Dublin over last weekend, where the keynote speaker was Ralph Martin from Renewal Ministries. Photo:John McElroy

The Vatican is being urged to pressurise religious congregations that ran Magdalen laundries here to contribute to compensation and redress for former residents. Reform Alliance TD Lucinda Creighton said it would be a “positive step” towards helping heal some of the hurt caused by religious orders involved in the running of the laundries. She told…