Move brings balance of rights to victim and allows sharing of files with civil authorities

Fear of immigrants can be exploited in terms to support narrow populism says archbishop

Martyrs remind us we must not accept everything deemed socially necessary

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

Late pontiff best known for endorsing church’s prohibition on artificial birth control

Ireland’s image as rebel nation where each Catholic suspected of treason persisted for hundreds of years