Roman Curia
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The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles: A seminal book
- Books
- December 24, 2019, 06:00
A viciously brilliant lampoon by the infamous Cummings from The Sunday Express of May 31st, 1981, which adorns the cover of this riveting and seminal (...)

Vatican to give guidebook on dealing with child sex abuse to bishops
- Europe
- February 25, 2019, 05:03
The Vatican is to prepare a guidebook for Catholic bishops worldwide so they “clearly understand their duties and tasks” in dealing with clerical chil(...)

Action needed from key Vatican meeting on child abuse
- Opinion
- February 19, 2019, 05:00
Presidents of every Catholic bishops’ conference across the world – the church’s regional organisations – will be in Rome to attend a Vatican meeting (...)

Church response to modern abuse scandals ‘same as 30 years ago’
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 14, 2019, 21:22
As the scandal of clerical child sex abuse emerges in other countries across the world the Catholic Church response in each has been exactly as it was(...)

Priests do not have experience to prepare people for marriage, says Vatican Cardinal
- Religion & Beliefs
- July 3, 2018, 14:56
Priests have no credibility when it comes to training people for marriage, according to the most senior Irish cleric in the Vatican. Cardinal Kevin F(...)

Pope invited to International Women’s Day conference
- Religion & Beliefs
- February 11, 2018, 15:10
Pope Francis has been invited to attend the ‘Why Women Matter’ conference in Rome next month at which former President of Ireland Mary McAleese will b(...)

Vatican ignores child protection proposals approved by pope
- Religion & Beliefs
- March 6, 2017, 01:00
It has been said of some senior civil servants, in Ireland as elsewhere, that they believe governments are elected to carry out their will. Such Sir H(...)

Diarmaid Ferriter: Catholic Church remains out of touch
- Opinion
- March 4, 2017, 05:00
In his marvellously acerbic memoir Against The Tide, published in 1986, former minister for health Dr Noël Browne describes an encounter with the Cath(...)

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(...)

‘Vatileaks 2’ trial due to reconvene
- Europe
- March 12, 2016, 01:05
The potentially embarrassing, so-called Vatileaks 2 trial is scheduled to reconvene in the Vatican on Saturday morning. This is the Vatican City sta(...)