6+ hour, 30+ min ago   (675+ words) The case for greater understanding of the Christian Brothers and for older members of the congregation who neither abused children nor had any responsibility for what happened in the past was made by Fr Tony Flannery earlier this month. There…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (488+ words) The Church of Ireland has sought to allay concerns raised about a Dublin parish’s finances 20 years ago when Rev Andrew Orr, recently elected as Bishop of Cork, served as its rector. Concerns about Orr’s appointment as Bishop of Cork, Cloyne…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (541+ words) The Christian Brothers have been the focus of a considerable amount of media attention in the last couple of weeks concerning the issue of allegations of sexual abuse of minors by a number of their members. A High Court judge…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1349+ words) Inside the National Stadium on the South Circular Road in Dublin, 1,600 people are here to see 51-year-old Fr Mike Schmitz: a social media star, digital evangelist and Catholic chaplain at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the US. Some of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (732+ words) Dublin-based priest Fr François Laisney is not perturbed by the Vatican announcement on Thursday that he and other clergy of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX) had excommunicated themselves the previous day. On Wednesday, at their headquarters at…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (504+ words) Members of a breakaway Catholic group excommunicated over the ordination of four bishops were unrepentant on Thursday, ‌accusing the Church of straying from the true faith and saying Pope Leo had failed to hear their concerns. At their seminary in…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (639+ words) The recent Irish Catholic bishops’ document, Turning the Tide, has been the subject of extensive coverage, particularly regarding the finding that religious practice is significantly higher in Northern Ireland than in the Republic. The report draws extensively on the European…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (159+ words) Christopher Lamb, CNN’s Vatican Correspondent who covered the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, is well-placed to assess the impact the first American (and Augustinian) pope might have on the fortunes of the Catholic Church. A senior figure in the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (578+ words) Pope Leo has urged political leaders to seek unity, rather than divide their populations for political gain, and said they must fight for peace, in the opening speech of his tour in Spain. The pope has made the marginalised a…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (307+ words) More than a million people filled the streets of ‌Madrid and one of its main squares on Sunday morning to catch a glimpse of Pope Leo as ​he made his way to an open-air Mass in what was expected to…...