Archdiocese asks council to rezone several parish sites to address housing needs

Full Government inquiry into State’s adoption practices looking increasingly likely

A-Z highlights from a new guide to Irish housing which aims to demystify the jargon

The falsehoods, euphemisms and face-saving ruses that helped make us what we are

Fifty years ago encyclical laid down terms of church’s ban on artifical contraception

Why are religious congregations involved in providing private medical care?

Archbishop McQuaid said Catholic hospitals must follow ‘moral law’ laid down by church

Silencing the bell that announces ‘this is a Catholic country’ should be easy. But it's not

Single mothers socially reviled, one-third of illegitimate babies died in their first year

Archbishop John Charles McQuaid loved the Latin language and culture and was not enthusiastic about the idea of an all-vernacular liturgy

A 60-year journey from obsequious conformity

When Victor Griffin, a former dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, was in Derry he annoyed Protestants. In Dublin he upset Catholics. Now 89, he reflects on a changed Ireland, and on Charles Haughey’s good deeds

The millionaire crooner wanted Irish nuns to staff a hospital he was bankrolling

James Francis Lydon: Born May 12th, 1928; died June 25th, 2013