Church live-streaming likely to lead to more defamation actions, evangelicals warn
Evangelical church in Tullamore, Co Offaly, was recently sued over remarks made during live-streamed Baptism
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A national convention more than 30 years ago changed Irish education. What lessons are there for today?
Helen McEntee is planning the ‘largest conversation on education in the State’s history’. She would do well to examine the legacy of a landmark report from three decades ago
Pope Leo XIV holds inaugural Mass at St Peter’s Square in front of 250,000
Pontiff arrives into St Peter’s Square on popemobile for service marking the official start of his papacy
The financial heavyweight, the media guru and the abuse investigator: What next for top Irish Vatican clerics under Pope Leo XIV?
Three Irish-born senior figures in the Roman Curia look set to remain in prominent roles under the new pontiff
Brendan Comiskey obituary: Bishop who resigned over mishandling of child abuse cases
He was part of a group of prelates seeking to create a moderate, more liberal church
Ireland is running out of priests. There is an obvious solution
Women priests: The Catholic Church is like a farmer complaining of a poor crop while ploughing only one depleted field and leaving the rest fallow
Inside the conclave: how a quiet American became pope
Cardinals and Vatican insiders tell the story of how a swift consensus built around the relatively unknown Robert Prevost
‘Never again war’: Pope Leo interrupts St Peter’s Square revelry with pleas for peace in Ukraine and Gaza
Visitors praise ‘humble, simple and very welcoming man’
Author Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin: ‘I’ll always be angry about the history of the church in Ireland’
Author’s debut novel, Ordinary Saints, celebrates the power of faith, even as it criticises the Catholic Church
Mary McAleese is right to call out Catholic Church over its exclusion of women from ordination
Former President of Ireland has a solid grounding in pointing out flawed arguments
Pope Leo XIV sets out vision for papacy and cites AI as critical challenge facing humanity
Leo tells first formal audience he will follow in the modernising reforms of Pope Francis
In pictures: When the showband era ended, Jas Fagan adapted and began making First Communion suits
Jas Fagan, a trombone player with showband The Cadets, started his tailoring business over 56 years ago. Joe Dolan was a client
The Irish Times view on Pope Leo: continuity and change
Leo may be a more reticent and measured leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics
In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV
In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the Cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV: who is he and what does he stand for?
In the News podcast: Patsy McGarry has reported on three conclaves; this one was different
Pope Leo XIV in Ireland: Unassuming and personable, he answered emails on the friary stairs
The key to understanding the former Bob Prevost, say those who met him in Ireland, is not as an American pope or a liberal or conservative one, but as a South American one
Pope Leo’s social conscience won’t go down well with JD Vance and Maga America
Pope Leo XIV accurately reflects the Catholic Church’s position in the developing world, where it is growing fastest
Pope Leo XIV: American cardinal Robert Prevost elected as new pope - as it happened
Cardinals choose new pontiff after fourth vote at the Vatican
Meet the ‘Papabiles’: The six men who could become the next pope
Conclave eligible to elect the successor to the late Pope Francis are expected to meet within weeks
Teachers want religion out of the classroom. Here’s what has to happen next
'Opted-out' children often just sit there – sometimes colouring a picture, listening to every word – segregated, othered and marked as different
Papal conclave: ‘I dread the day I think that’s about to arrive when I’m going to be older than the pope’
As the cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel took their oaths, a crowd of all ages gathered in St Peter’s Square
Papal conclave: Black smoke emerges from Sistine Chapel, signalling no new pope elected
Cardinals to reconvene tomorrow for further ballots
The papabiles: Who are the contenders to become the 267th pope?
Even at this late stage, it remains unclear who is most likely to become the Catholic Church’s next leader
Irish Times readers on the Catholic Church: ‘I am very proud to be a Roman Catholic in Ireland today’
As the conclave to choose the next pope begins, our readers share their views
Conclave: why this papal election is the hardest to call in decades
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Watch for white smoke begins in Vatican City as conclave meets to elect new pontiff
Ballots of 133 voting cardinals burned after each vote with black smoke signalling no agreement
The Irish Times view on the papal conclave: an unpredictable contest
The saying that ‘he who e’ters a conclave as pope exits as a cardinal” augurs badly for frontrunners
Conclave explained: A graphical guide to the election of a pope
Odds are on a short conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, with 267th pope likely to be picked by Thursday or Friday
The Irish disapora and its role in electing the successor to Pope Francis this week
Cardinals with strong links to Ireland will be playing key role in the papal conclave from Wednesday
Here’s a job for the next pope. Deliver us from climate apathy
We will not make the necessary climate leap if divisions continue - between rite and reason, left and right, rural and urban or young and old
Trump draws ire of US bishops with AI image of himself as pope ahead of papal conclave
‘There is nothing funny or clever about this, Mr President. Do not mock us,’ say Catholic leaders
Watch: Vatican releases video showing preparations in Sistine Chapel ahead of papal conclave
Cardinals have held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings over next pontiff
Michael O’Brien obituary: Former mayor of Clonmel who became an advocate for survivors of clerical abuse
O’Brien was widely praised after making a powerful contribution to RTÉ’s Questions & Answers in 2009
Vatican workers install chimney on Sistine Chapel in advance of papal election
Chimney will be used by the conclave that will elect the successor of Pope Francis
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