4+ hour, 51+ min ago  (914+ words) A total of nine new priests will be ordained into Irish Catholic dioceses this year, an increase on the six ordained in 2025. Of the 26 dioceses and archdioceses, all but five have ordained a priest since 2021 or will ordain one this…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago  (486+ words) Pope Leo and new Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally have met for the first "time in a symbolic encounter at the Vatican, in which the leaders of the long-separated Catholic Church and Church of England exchanged gifts and prayed together....

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (409+ words) Pope Leo urged Angolans to overcome divisions after decades of bloody conflict in an address to an estimated 100, 000 people who flocked to a mass in near the capital Luanda. In one of the biggest events of his four-nation Africa tour,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (654+ words) An idea that started as a bit of fun 17 months ago has turned into something much bigger - and more meaningful - for three young men from Co Wicklow. Since November 2024, Baltinglass friends Luke Doogue, Stephen Patterson and Dylan Byrne have visited…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (59+ words) | Today with David Mc Cullagh - RT" Radio 1 RTE. ie To listen to RT". ie's radio and podcast services, you will need to disable any ad blocking extensions or whitelist this site. Are more young people going to mass? Fr. Willie…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (766+ words) Irish Catholics rank towards the higher end of European countries on measures of weekly mass attendance and daily prayer, according to research commissioned by the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference. Data from previous European Social Survey (ESS) surveys; Am'rach Research on…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (800+ words) Abuse survivor David Ryan, who featured in the RT" documentary 'Blackrock Boys', has said he received an apology from Pope Leo XIV during a meeting with the pontiff in the Vatican. Mr Ryan described the experience yesterday as amazing and…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1689+ words) On Christmas Eve 2024, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica to mark a significant 12 months ahead in the Catholic Church. The Jubilee Year of Hope would be a chance for the Catholic faithful to embrace a new…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (192+ words) A high-level Vatican commission has voted against allowing women to serve as deacons, maintaining the Church's practice of all-male clergy, according to report given to Pope Leo XIV. The commission, in a 7-1 vote, said historical research and theological investigation "excludes the…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (479+ words) Britain's King Charles III will meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican today and make history as the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with a pontiff for five centuries. The 76-year-old monarch, who is supreme…...