Summaries of what is discussed will be forwarded to Pope Francis

Voters were almost all educated in church-run schools

‘It’s Satan who leads us into temptation, that’s his department,’ says Pope Francis

Populist rants of Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins insult intelligence as well as the faithful

Remarks counter clergy at Galway novena who suggested practice making a comeback

Banned priest: ‘It’s all falling apart so fast; it’s collapsing rapidly. Some say it’s too late’

As we grow old as priests, we realise how little care, esteem or affection is in our lives

Fr Seán McDonagh says comments about ‘goings on’ in Maynooth caused embarrassment

Moving trainees from college amid gay subculture claims not fixing more important issues, Fr Brendan Hoban says

Public debate left to ‘obsessive’ religious who ‘psychologically bludgeon’ their opponents

Catholic bishops urged to develop more just and respectful process for dealing with cases

Association of Catholic Priests says members are subjected to ‘huge mental and physical pressure’

Meeting comes amid tensions between priests and bishops’ conference

As clergy die, who will replace them? Without priests, there can be no Eucharist

Number of priests serving in parishes expected to fall by 60%, report says

Unwillingness to change the terms of the Equal Status Act that allows intake preference to be given to baptised children suggests a failure of political nerve

Catholic parishes ‘have no intention of handing over their local school to anyone’

Expense and inconvenience involved would have one certain outcome: the abandonment of Catholic church weddings by even more couples in favour of civil weddings

People ‘no longer willing to listen to speeches and sermons on morality from the church’

Priest ‘unconvinced by many of arguments offered by both sides’

Diarmuid Martin stresses ‘people should be informed’ about about same-sex marriage

If same-sex vote carried, the church’s view on marriage and that of State radically different

Analysis: Priests express fears opposition to Yes vote could damage church

Priest says stance of bishops, Iona Institute and fundamentalists damaging church

Association of Catholic Priests accuses Mullen of ‘a gratuitous and ill-informed attack’

Between 2002 and 2012, number of priests fell by 13% and nuns by 23%, Vatican publication shows

Survey finds 64 per cent of Catholic clergy ‘dissatisfied’ with new missal

‘Enormous dissatisfaction’ with new missal expressed by representatives of the Association of Catholic Priests

They ‘should have grabbed one of the alternatives offered’ by broadcaster

Association of Catholic Priests’ spokesman ‘exhilarated’

‘The great weapon of the Curia is secrecy, the great weapon of all oppressors’

He ‘spent very little time in parish work and he has no formal training as a papal nuncio’

The majority of funerals in this country are still Catholic, a rural priest talks about the phenomenon

Mark Patrick Hederman told the Percy French Summer School a new Seanad should be constituted and should include artists.