Imaginative renovation and transformation was a recurring theme while visiting these contemporary architectural gems

Catholicism can thrive as a minority faith free of state and helping the needy

They have fewer resources to prepare for the storms or to survive their effects

The leading Irish Catholic charity to withdraw investment in oil companies to fight climate change

France’s riot police search trains crossing border and return migrants to Ventimiglia

New to the Parish: Caroline Munyi arrived from Kenya in 2007

The country’s vague regulations are stirring tensions with both camps seeking change

Racist internet comments prompt charity worker to spread positive message

Catholic church explores how investments can promote solutions to climate crisis

Numbers completing the Leaving Cert Applied are falling due to stigma, say teachers

Pope’s encyclical challenged trickle-down theory and warned of uneven growth

US is still a magnet for the many trying to escape crime and violence at home

Charity will always be needed even though we have recently become suspicious of it

Ecumenical commemorations are part of marking the anniversary of the Reformation

Education drive at camp in the tiny African state is impoving lives of those who fled war

‘I find it extremely annoying and unfair to move people away from what they created’

Spirit of evil takes us to lack of unity and to destruction out of fanaticism, says pontiff

Prime minister Valls and EU officials to visit Calais, including Jules Ferry camp

Desperate people are taking enormous risks to try to get into Britain from France

Armagh-born director of Anti-Slavery International is working to end forced labour

Rome Letter: It’s clear the pope is in a good place mentally and physically

Fr Gustavo Gutiérrez at Vatican press conference

‘What they are seeing is entire towns and villages where every house and public building has collapsed’

Oxfam Ireland says search and rescue is the initial priority, then providing water, food, medical care and shelter to survivors

Additional 15 cardinals shows move away from Catholic Church’s eurocentric heart

Clerics express concern faithful could disappear from heartland

Church teaching ‘neither totally pro-market nor totally anti-market’ he tells Caritas Europa

‘Disturbing levels of poverty’ in countries worst hit by recession, including Ireland

Why U2 got it right with ‘Love is Blindness’ and the Beatles got it wrong with ‘All You Need Is Love’

Expensive residence renvoation under investigation by German bishops

The new pope’s approach to wealth may not be compatible with his German church