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President Michael D Higgins with Imam Hussein Halawa during a visit to the Islamic Cultural Centre, Clonskeagh, Dublin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the opening of the centre. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

Higgins congratulates Islamic centre on fighting prejudice

Patsy McGarry
November 21, 2016, 20:42

President commends Islamic Cultural Centre in Dublin as it celebrates 20th anniversary

Pope Francis: “I wish to restate as firmly as I can that abortion is a grave sin, since it puts an end to an innocent life.” Photograph: EPA

Analysis: Pope Francis consistent over absolution for abortion

Patsy McGarry
November 21, 2016, 19:30

Pontiff: ‘Remaining only at the level of the law is equivalent to thwarting faith and mercy’

Pope Francis leads a Mass for the closing of the Jubilee of Mercy on November 20th. Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images

Pope allows priests absolve women of ‘grave sin’ of abortion

Patsy McGarry
November 21, 2016, 13:16

There is no sin that God’s mercy cannot reach, says Pope Francis in Apostolic Letter

Cardinal-designate: Pope Francis and Kevin Farrell. Photograph courtesy of the diocese of Dallas

‘The pope is on the phone,’ she said. ‘Like hell, he is,’ I replied

Paddy Agnew
November 19, 2016, 06:00

Kevin Farrell, a 69-year-old Dubliner who became bishop of Dallas, will be made a cardinal at the Vatican today

Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland: Designed by architects Michael Collins & Associates, it won a Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland award in 1997. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland celebrates 20th anniversary

Patsy McGarry
November 19, 2016, 01:00

Clonskeagh busiest Islamic centre, with 1,200 praying daily

“Every single human being is in some measure enlightened by Jesus Christ.” Photograph: Brian A Jackson/iStock

Thinking Anew – The heart of the Christian message

Gordon Linney
November 19, 2016, 00:01

The Iona Institute has criticised a response by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to the Education (Admissions to Schools) Bill, 2016. File photograph: Getty Images

Religious rift over plans to reform school admissions policies

Patsy McGarry
November 18, 2016, 16:20

Christian group claims recommendations of rights body threatens faith formation in schools

Fr Dan O’Mahony of Achonry diocese said “new models of priesthood need to be looked at. A change of ‘uniform’ as well.”

Priests accuse bishops of ‘trying to fob us off’

Patsy McGarry
November 16, 2016, 22:32

Prelates ‘don’t want exclusive club changed’, Association of Catholic Priests meeting told

Fr Brendan Hoban said priests were being bullied and were prone to depression with an increase in suicide rates over recent years, at the Association of Catholic Priests’s annual meeting. File photograph: Alan Betson

‘Reviled’ priests’ morale at all time low, conference hears

Patsy McGarry
November 16, 2016, 22:12

Fr Brendan Hoban says clerics are being turned into ‘sacrament-dispensing machines’

Minister for Education Richard Bruton is to set up a review into Caranua. Photograph: Alan Betson

Minister to set up review of abuse survivors’ group Caranua

Patsy McGarry
November 16, 2016, 09:05

70% of State organisation’s spending to date allocated to housing, says chief executive

The Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh: the centre had “provided strong leadership over many years”, said Minister David Stanton. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

Dublin’s Islamic Cultural Centre celebrates 20th anniversary

Patsy McGarry
November 15, 2016, 01:00

Clonskeagh building was opened in 1996 by then president Mary Robinson

The Church of Ireland has appointed a new child protection officer for the Republic. Photograph: Frank Miller

Church of Ireland appoints child protection officer

Patsy McGarry
November 14, 2016, 17:31

Gabriel Chrystal brings range of experience from work with police forces in Britain

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin delivered the sermon at evensong in Christ Church Cathedral following an invitation from the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

Christianity key in development of Western culture, says Martin

Patsy McGarry
November 13, 2016, 18:59

Debate between faith and culture vital for healthy growth of pluralist society, says Archbishop

Photograph: Ryan Lane/iStock

Thinking Anew – Angry righteousness is not the way

Michael Commane
November 12, 2016, 01:01

Handout provided by Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano shows Pope Francis greeting pilgrims at a special audience with homeless people in the Vatican City, November 11th, 2016. Photograph: Osservatore Romano/EPA

Trump election: Pope echoes concerns over immigration

Paddy Agnew
November 11, 2016, 18:02

Francis criticised president-elect earlier in year on views, now careful ‘not to name names’

St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin: “As I understand it, O’Brien was never an employee of the cathedral,” says former dean Robert Mac Carthy. Photograph: Dennis Flaherty

Child abuser volunteered at St Patrick’s Cathedral after conviction

Patsy McGarry
November 10, 2016, 18:23

Wider Church of Ireland community ‘deeply dismayed’ at nature and extent of offences

People vote at a polling station in a church in Fairfax, Virginia during the US presidential election on November 8th, 2016. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

Far more Catholics, other Christians back Trump than Clinton

Patsy McGarry
November 10, 2016, 14:41

81 per cent of self-identified white, born-again or evangelical Christians say they voted Trump

Conferred studetns Carolyn O’Neill, Lara Magdalena Szczepaniak, Helen Roland, Jian Ler Ang and Uao De Heng with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin honoured for contribution to Ireland’s ‘moral ethos’

Patsy McGarry
November 10, 2016, 12:57

Recent economic recession in Ireland was ‘a crisis about values,’ says Archbishop

Pope Francis in Sweden, marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Photograph: EPA/Jonas Ekstroemer

Catholic laity group calls for female priests and clerical marriage

Patsy McGarry
November 8, 2016, 18:41

ACI also calls on bishops in Ireland to make their views known to Pope Francis

Association of Catholic Priests co-founder Fr Tony Flannery has criticised a letter sent by the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Bishops’ letter to Catholic priests’ group criticised

Patsy McGarry
November 8, 2016, 16:08

Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference missive described as ‘a sugar-coated push-off’

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