Plans to monitor mosques during Friday prayers

Numbers attending Confession during Advent and Christmas increased

Other parishes fortunate to have escaped flooding damage

Pope Francis is expected to shortly appoint new bishops

High level meeting draws international experts

Figures released by Papal Household

Spokeswoman was responding to reports that the College of Psychiatrists has advised its members not to participate in review panels for abortion in the absence of clinical guidelines from the Department of Health.

US groups continue to fight the ‘abortion mandate’

Pontiff to travel this May

Militant actions threaten the Christian population