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…

81st annual celebration

Act breaches religious freedoms

7th annual celebration

The gates of a Catholic church in Co. Antrim have been returned to their original colour after being painted red, white and blue over the weekend. The kerb in front of the Church of our Lady and John the Evangelists in the village of Dervock remains painted, but it has been reported that the gates…

‘The world cannot turn a blind eye to the tragedy’

Representatives of the world's Catholic bishops, meeting together in a synod, are not expected to make any formal proposals about the church's pastoral care of families until after a second, larger gathering in 2015. The extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family will meet at the Vatican Oct. 5-19, bringing together the presidents of national…

“The behaviour in the video was a desecration of the church”

Mother Magdalen of the Sacred Heart on road to sainthood