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Does the Catholic church have a role to play in pluralist Ireland? Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times
Catholic church: ‘Good Riddance or Good Influence?’

Whether the Catholic Church has any role in an increasingly pluralist Ireland will be discussed at a three-day international conference in Trinity Col(...)

The Final mass of the Marianella Irish Redemptorist centre in Rathgar. The Blessed Sacrament is escorted from the Chapel by Fr George Wadding. Picture Nick Bradshaw
Rite & Reason: A living, breathing liturgical community is ‘buried alive’ in Dublin

‘It’s like a big funeral,” one woman was quoted as saying in The Irish Times. Indeed she was right. It was a big funeral, a heartbreaking one, at whic(...)

‘The Book of Kells in all its glory is now fully digitalised at the digitalcollections.tcd.ie (http://bit.ly/1Deu6EM). The manuscript in its entirety can be studied by all.’
The Book of Kells: ‘The most purely Irish thing we have’ – James Joyce

The Book of Kells, housed in the Trinity College library, is a fascinating manuscript. It is first and foremost a Book of the Gospels. When you look a(...)

Floribeth Mora Diaz places the reliquary containing a relic of PopeJohn Paul II alongside that of Pope Paul XXIII during the historic double canonisation ceremony for past pontiffs on Saturday. Photograph: Jacek Turczyk
Why do relics, which featured in the papal canonisations, play a key role in church?

In 2001 the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux were brought to Ireland, thousands flocked to see them and to pray. Since then we have had scandal (...)

TV Review: Browne challenges God – and bores his viewers. Meanwhile, Southcliffe is chillingly on target

For its first serious foray into religious programming, TV3 went old school. None of your Kumbaya guitar strumming or soft explorations about the mean(...)