Accusation was made by Canadian ambassador

People looking for Mass cards are mistakenly buying expensive sympathy cards

Board being ‘starved’ of money – claim

Baptist pastor and has son are among the latest victims

The pupils in Kilmoyley National School inArdfert, Co. Kerry celebrated Catholic Schools Week by honouring St Brigid last week, and their St Brigid’s crosses were blessed by Fr Tadhg Fitzgerald at both Masses in The Sacred Heart Church, Kilmoyley last weekend.

Vatican accountant Msgr Nunzio Scarano (pictured) has been further charged as a result of an investigation into his financial activities. Having already faced a court in Rome in connection with his 2013 arrest in relation to the alleged smuggling of €20 million, Msgr Scarano, who worked for the Administration for the Patrimony of the Holy…

The Vatican has announced that the beatification of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, first successor to Opus Dei founder St Josemaria Escrivá. The late prelate, who led Opus Dei form 1975 until 1994 will be beatified in Madrid, Spain, this September 27 during a ceremony presided over by Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for…

Despite concerns, and at least one warning, Pope Francis appears to have won the hearts of at least two Italian mobsters. According to a leaked recording of a bugged conversation between two mafia leaders at a prison in Milan, both Salvatore Riina (pictured), a leading member of the Cosa Nostra and Alberto Lorusso of the…

A leading biotechnologist in Ireland has offered a cautious welcome for the newly opened stem cell manufacturing centre at NUI Galway. Responding to news that the Centre for Cell Manufacturing Ireland (CCMI) had received its approval from the Irish Medicines Board to commence production of adult stem cells for research purposes, Professor Martin Clynes of…

One of Ireland’s most prominent religious sisters and theologians has said that she does not think that the Church’s teaching on the ordination of women priests “is right”. Sr Geraldine Smyth OP, associate professor at the Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD, told The Irish Catholic she does not think that the teaching stands up though…