Benedict Emeritus
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Papal duty: Benedict XVI intervention raises question of what to do with a retired pope
- Opinion
- January 14, 2020, 01:00
And lo, it has come to pass! Former pope Benedict XVI has directly intervened in church affairs in an overt attempt to frustrate a decision his succes(...)

Cardinal John Henry Newman might well be the patron saint of ecumenism
- Opinion
- October 8, 2019, 01:00
Theologian, scholar, educationalist, poet, novelist, convert, cardinal and blessed are some of the outstanding titles of John Henry Newman we can cele(...)

Pontifacts: All the papal questions you never thought to ask
- People
- August 25, 2018, 06:00
As you’ll know unless you’ve spent the last few weeks sequestered in a beehive hut on Puffin Island, the pope is due to touch down in Ireland at 10.30(...)

As Ireland prepares for its first Papal visit in close to 40 years, the unimpressed throng – a cranky minority in 1979 – finds itself in a tricky posi(...)

Dubliner, who was Protestant, declared ‘Blessed’ by Catholic Church
- Religion & Beliefs
- May 13, 2017, 00:00
It should not happen in Ireland and certainly not in a year which commemorates the beginnings of the Reformation 500 years ago, when Martin Luther nai(...)

Irish priest to head Vatican Congregation disciplinary section
- Religion & Beliefs
- April 4, 2017, 19:40
An Irish priest, Msgr John Kennedy, has been appointed by Pope Francis to head the Vatican’s disciplinary office of the Congregation for the Doctrine (...)

Pope Francis to make defining statement on family
- Religion & Beliefs
- April 7, 2016, 20:30
Friday is the day which many feel will define the papacy of Pope Francis. What he announces in his Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of(...)

Pope Francis opens Holy Door at Vatican to launch ‘year of mercy’
- Religion & Beliefs
- December 8, 2015
“You are the door through which we come to thee, inexhaustible source of consolation for everyone . . .” With those words, Pope Francis on Tuesday m(...)

Mary McAleese calls for Yes vote in marriage referendum
- Politics
- April 13, 2015, 17:27
Former president Mary McAleese has described same sex marriage as a “human rights issue” as she and her husband Martin called for a Yes vote in the up(...)

Pope Francis’s broadside leaves Roman curia shocked and awed
- World
- December 23, 2014, 20:30
It is clear that Pope Francis’s pre-Christmas address to the Roman curia this week did not sit well with many of its members. It was a coruscating (...)