A senior Fine Gael figure smiles as he muses on Enda Kenny’s reluctance to fill the vacancy for junior agriculture minister, a post that has be(...)

Pope Francis said today that clergy who were “careerists” or “social climbers” were doing serious damage to the Catholic Church, his latest ut(...)

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Those who have difficulty with miracles may be feeling challenged after the past six weeks. It now seems it is the probable that takes a little(...)

I n his final Lenten message, Pope Benedict XVI invited reflection on “the love God has for us ” (1(...)

Did Dr Who borrow one of its key memes from the papacy? For those unfamiliar with the flag(...)

Some social commentators have argued in recent years that as a society we are retreating from simultaneous consumption of mass media into indiv(...)

Yesterday afternoon, by mistake, someone at the Italian Bishops Conference sent off a telegram of congratulations to Car(...)

The tasks facing Pope Francis I are truly enormous and, while just about everyone wishes him well, you do have to wonder how a man of 76 will b(...)

They had to be the luckiest Argentinian family in the whole wide world. Well, certainly in St Peter’s Square. They were easily spotted, if murd(...)