Al Qaeda militants are being blamed for the deadly Christmas bombings in Iraq which claimed at least 37 lives. The Christian community in Baghdad was targeted on Christmas Day in three near-simultaneous bombings at St John’s Catholic church, where 26 died, and at a marketplace in the nearby Assyrian Christian district. The car bomb at…

A priest who found himself at the heart of a major child abuse probe in America has had his child endangerment conviction overturned on appeal. Monsignor William Lynn, 62, a former secretary for clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, was convicted in June 2012 for his role in reassigning an abusive priest, Fr Edward Avery,…

The Irish Catholic to host talk by US-based Prof. Michael W. Higgins

The fundraising efforts spearheaded by newly appointed Episcopal Vicar for Financial Development Fr Andrew O’Sullivan

The new ministry will see lay people work alongside the parish clergy

Marie Collins has tipped Dublin’s Archbishop Martin for a role in the newly-announced safeguarding commission to advise Pope Francis

Cpl Diarmuid Flahavan (1 Brigade Engineer Coy) from Enniskeane, Co. Cork pictured presenting Fr Robert McCabe CF with a crib (including a fence to keep the ox and donkey from straying!) at Camp Faouar, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) headquarters in Syria, where Fr McCabe he is leading the Christmas celebrations for the 43…

Pope Francis has accused those considering women as cardinals within the Catholic Church as suffering from “clericalism”.

Greek Orthodox Patriarchate has expressed further concern for the fate of a group of nuns kidnapped from the monastery of St Thecla in Maalula on December 2

A religious freedom advocacy group is calling for more action on a major increase of attacks on Christians in Mexico