New film planned based on heroic work of Pope Francis in saving hundreds of people from the Argentinian dictatorship

The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this month. The meeting will take place on November 25, although details are not yet in place and an exact time has not been set.

Pope John Paul II Awards in Mallow.

The Holy See has concluded a diplomatic accord with Chad, establishing the legal rights of the Church in the African country. The agreement was signed in Yamena, Chad on November 6 by Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, the Apostolic Nuncio in Chad, and Moussa Faki Mahamat, the country’s foreign minister.

Iran makes conciliatory soundings to the Vatican, writes Paul Keenan

"The Holy Father should not have received that individual." Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, who served as personal secretary to the former Pope for 39 years, commenting – in a new book, I Lived with a Saint – on a 2004 meeting between the late Pontiff’s meetings and disgraced Legionaries of Christ founder Father Marcial…

Opposition to the Pontiff is growing, writes Michael Higgins

Paul Keenan and Cathal Barry Parishes across Ireland are mounting massive fundraising efforts for the Philippines as Irish missionaries there say more aid is urgently needed. In the wake of super-typhoon Haiyan, some 10 million people are directly affected and more than 5 million people left homeless. The death toll is expected to be in…

It’s long been called the ‘Francis effect’ and now, thanks to a new survey, its positive results are being measured for the first time. Since his election in March, Pope Francis has been the focus of much attention for his warm and engaging style of leadership, leading to debates as to whether this would translate…

A newly established confraternity for Irish clergy hopes to support clerics in their lives and ministry, the group’s chairman has said. Established during a meeting of priests in Knock, Co. Mayo in late October, the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is based on successful bodies already working for the wellbeing of priests in Australia, the United…