Future depends on returning to the radical equality of Jesus and early church

‘Ridiculous’ that six remain under sanctions given how pope has changed church’s culture

It is hard to point to anything Archbishop Martin has done to change the church’s attitude to women

Modern Irish Catholics, from the cultural to the a la carte and conservative

Fr Tony Flannery says efforts to explain Jesus’s presence in Eucharist not ‘very helpful’

People are ‘rejecting [traditional] doctrines as childish fantasies and walking away’

Galway priest says he believes change, to deal with shortage of priests, will happen

Hopes Taoiseach will be ‘courageous and forthright’ on refugees when meeting Trump

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

Church has lost its power and must start listening to the people, priest tells crowds

Kenny took letter from priest, suspended for views on Catholic teachings, to pope during visit

Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference missive described as ‘a sugar-coated push-off’

Irish publication has fallen foul of the Vatican and was deemed ‘dangerous’ in 1960s

Teachings, rather than any ‘strange goings-on’, are main source of contention

Marist priest ‘dared to imagine how Catholic church could be different’, funeral told

Late priest was censured by Vatican until former president Mary McAleese intervened

Church exclusion is throwback to Middle Ages and causing many women to leave

Fr Tony Flannery says female clergy would make a dramatic change amid serious crisis

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

Dissident theologians accuse church watchdog of heartless, unchristian attitude