I’d been wondering when the media would get their teeth into Pope Francis. The initial response to the election of Cardinal Bergoglio was posit(...)

The Vatican has played down suggestions the pope may have performed an exorcism on a sick man. The pope laid his hands on the head of a y(...)

In one of his most outspoken comments since his election two months ago, Pope Francis has called for worldwide “financial reform along ethical (...)

Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned as head of the Catholic Church in Scotland after acknowledging sexual misconduct, will leave Scotland for (...)

Pope Francis has proclaimed as saints some 800 Italians killed in the 15th century for refusing to convert to Islam, and said many Christians (...)

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

The new bishop of Kildare and Leighlin has said these are “difficult days” for priests as they see their numbers dwindle but pledged to work to enc(...)

The wife of a Bangladeshi garment worker who was killed when a building collapsed filed a murder complaint against the building’s owner today a(...)

Legend has it that St Francis could talk to the birds and tame wolves. His namesake Pope Francis, however, may shortly be faced with an equally(...)

Anne Lucey A 56-year-old parish priest in Roscommon is to be the new Bishop of Kerry. Raymond A Browne, a graduate of St Patrick’s (...)