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
Evangelical church in Tullamore, Co Offaly, was recently sued over remarks made during live-streamed Baptism
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
Pontiff arrives into St Peter’s Square on popemobile for service marking the official start of his papacy
Three Irish-born senior figures in the Roman Curia look set to remain in prominent roles under the new pontiff
He was part of a group of prelates seeking to create a moderate, more liberal church
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
Cardinals and Vatican insiders tell the story of how a swift consensus built around the relatively unknown Robert Prevost
Visitors praise ‘humble, simple and very welcoming man’
Author’s debut novel, Ordinary Saints, celebrates the power of faith, even as it criticises the Catholic Church
Former President of Ireland has a solid grounding in pointing out flawed arguments
Leo tells first formal audience he will follow in the modernising reforms of Pope Francis
Jas Fagan, a trombone player with showband The Cadets, started his tailoring business over 56 years ago. Joe Dolan was a client
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 the News podcast: Patsy McGarry has reported on three conclaves; this one was different
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 XIV accurately reflects the Catholic Church’s position in the developing world, where it is growing fastest
Cardinals choose new pontiff after fourth vote at the Vatican
Conclave eligible to elect the successor to the late Pope Francis are expected to meet within weeks
'Opted-out' children often just sit there – sometimes colouring a picture, listening to every word – segregated, othered and marked as different
As the cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel took their oaths, a crowd of all ages gathered in St Peter’s Square
Cardinals to reconvene tomorrow for further ballots
Even at this late stage, it remains unclear who is most likely to become the Catholic Church’s next leader
As the conclave to choose the next pope begins, our readers share their views
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Ballots of 133 voting cardinals burned after each vote with black smoke signalling no agreement
The saying that ‘he who e’ters a conclave as pope exits as a cardinal” augurs badly for frontrunners
Odds are on a short conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, with 267th pope likely to be picked by Thursday or Friday
Cardinals with strong links to Ireland will be playing key role in the papal conclave from Wednesday
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
‘There is nothing funny or clever about this, Mr President. Do not mock us,’ say Catholic leaders
Cardinals have held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings over next pontiff
O’Brien was widely praised after making a powerful contribution to RTÉ’s Questions & Answers in 2009
Chimney will be used by the conclave that will elect the successor of Pope Francis
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