Fr Michael Router is told new life will be ‘fulfilling’ but ‘not without its challenges’

Archbishop Richard Clarke says discourse ‘pointing back to that terrible decade of the 1930s’

Church of Ireland leader Dr Richard Clarke says present hiatus cannot go on indefinitely

Coveney says latest political talks positive but much ‘heavy lifting to do’ in weeks ahead

Churches take part in ecumenical ‘Way of the Cross’ processions in Limerick and Dublin

Primates emphasise that having a home gives humans a sense of ‘personal dignity’

Rite&Reason: Too many of us regard our viewpoint as a given and all else as worthy of ridicule

Peace ‘means coming out of our own trenches; building bridges, not parapets’, Eamon Martin says

Deadlock ‘affecting community life, public services and cross-Border co-operation’

Northern Secretary has meetings with Simon Coveney, North’s main political parties and church leaders on how to restore Stormont

Cross-community delegation marking upcoming centenary of end of first World War

Proposed unrestricted abortion for 12 weeks ‘ethically unsustainable’

Proposed law ‘regressive, incompatible with human dignity and morally unacceptable’

Retired Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin John Neill notes absence of agreed position

Bishop of Limerick says repeal is ‘entirely consistent’ with COI view on abortion

Amendment ‘incorrigibly flawed’, Bishop of Cashel Michael Burrows says

Catholic bishop asks if Down syndrome deprives unborn child of right to birth and life

All four main Churches in Ireland now oppose 12-week proposal

Joint message describes homelessness as ‘tragic symptom of a broken system’

Pope calls for peace, not the ‘sowing of violence, racial discrimination and xenophobia’