'People's experience of church and the method of belonging' is set to changeANALYSIS : Censuses and polls show the nature of adherence to religious institutions in Ireland is evolvingTue Jun 05 2012 - 01:00
Healing a broken churchA new ‘Irish Times’ series begins today. Next week, Ireland hosts the 50th Eucharistic Congress of the Catholic ChurchSat Jun 02 2012 - 01:00
Congress will not be a re-run of 1932 event, says MartinTHE EUCHARISTIC Congress which begins in Dublin on June 10th “will reflect the church in Ireland todayThu May 31 2012 - 01:00
Congress to 'reflect today's church'The Eucharistic Congress which begins in Dublin on June 10th “will reflect the Church in Ireland todayWed May 30 2012 - 01:00
Healthcare worker receives honourCardinal Seán Brady has conferred the papal award of the Cross Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice (for the Church and the Pontiff) on …Tue May 29 2012 - 01:00
Presbyterian leader says old order is 'passing away'THE RESPONSE of a Christian to “a society that increasingly doesn’t ‘do’ God” should “not be one of panic”, the new moderator…Tue May 29 2012 - 01:00
Laity to set up church reform groupsFOLLOWING THE Toward an Assembly of the Catholic Church gathering in Dublin’s Regency Hotel three weeks ago, which was attended…Mon May 28 2012 - 01:00
Seminary life should not be end in itself, warns archbishopTHE CATHOLIC Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin warned in Maynooth yesterday against “a narrow preoccupation” with day- to-…Mon May 28 2012 - 01:00
Rector of Rome's Irish College to be chaplain to popeThe rector of the Irish College in Rome Fr Ciarán O’Carroll has been appointed chaplain to Pope Benedict XVI which promotes him…Sat May 26 2012 - 01:00
Archdiocese paid €15.2m in compensation and legal fees in sex abuse casesDUBLIN’S CATHOLIC archdiocese has paid €15Fri May 25 2012 - 01:00
Archdiocese details scale of abuse casesAllegations of child sexual abuse were reported this past year against four priests of the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin who…Thu May 24 2012 - 01:00
Archbishop casts doubt over future of Irish College in RomeDOUBTS HAVE been raised as to whether the Irish College in Rome will continue as a seminary for the Irish Catholic ChurchFri May 18 2012 - 01:00
Oireachtas seeks bombings inquiryTHERE IS a continuing need for an independent international inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of May 17th, 1974, …Fri May 18 2012 - 01:00
No murder in the cathedral - just sexAnglicans have a great capacity to agree to disagree agreeably and, hastening slowly, adaptMon May 14 2012 - 01:00
Traditional teaching on marriage endorsedTHE GENERAL Synod of the Church of Ireland has reaffirmed the church’s traditional teaching on marriage as “of one man with one…Mon May 14 2012 - 01:00
Protestant schools 'weary' following cuts, synod is toldTHE PRECARIOUS fate of Church of Ireland primary schools in the Republic, due to spending cuts, exercised many speakers at the…Sat May 12 2012 - 01:00
Victims shocked by Mary Kenny article on nature of abuseTHERE HAS been strong reaction to an article by journalist Mary Kenny calling for an “honest inquiry” into Fr Brendan Smyth’s…Fri May 11 2012 - 01:00
Motions run high as synod debate on same-sex marriage is called off on a technicalityA MOTION affirming traditional church teaching on marriage could not be taken at the Church of Ireland General Synod in Dublin…Fri May 11 2012 - 01:00
Irish College in Rome set to replace three of its four priestsTHREE OF the four priest staff members at the Irish College in Rome who deal with the formation of seminarians are to return …Fri May 11 2012 - 01:00
Meeting hears calls for dialogue at all levels in Irish churchMORE THAN 1,000 Catholic laity, priests and nuns called for dialogue in the Irish church at a day-long conference in Dublin yesterday…Tue May 08 2012 - 01:00
Archbishop calls for inquiry into SmythAN INDEPENDENT commission into the abuse of children by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth “North and South” would be in the public…Mon May 07 2012 - 01:00
Hundreds of priests and laity gather to discuss future of churchTHE CONFERENCE room at the Regency Hotel on Dublin’s Swords Road has a capacity of 735Mon May 07 2012 - 01:00
Brady's warm tribute to bishop who kept Smyth link quietIT WAS June 7th, 2001, at the cathedral in Cavan town and the Catholic primate Archbishop (as he still was) Seán Brady was in…Mon May 07 2012 - 01:00
Brady welcomes sex abuse inquiry callCATHOLIC PRIMATE Cardinal Seán Brady has welcomed yesterday’s call for an independent inquiry into Fr Brendan Smyth’s abuse of…Mon May 07 2012 - 01:00
Martin wants commission set up into Smyth casesAn independent commission of investigation ought to be set up to inquire into the abuse of children by Fr Brendan Smyth, the …Sun May 06 2012 - 01:00
Brady asked for help in 2010THE CATHOLIC Communications Office yesterday said Cardinal Seán Brady had asked the pope “for additional support for my work” …Sat May 05 2012 - 01:00
Restoration of rights to Smyth beggars beliefIT BEGGARS belief that, following what was discovered about Fr Brendan Smyth’s abuse of children at two 1975 church inquiries…Sat May 05 2012 - 01:00
Priest risked church career to expose paedophile but concerns dismissedBRENDAN SMYTH: NOT ALL Irish priests in the 1960s and 1970s were as enthralled by silence as Fr Seán Brady, it would appear. …Fri May 04 2012 - 01:00
Trail of victims parents not toldBRENDAN BOLAND told the March 1975 church inquiry that he and five other young people of similar age to him had been abused by…Thu May 03 2012 - 01:00
Amnesty wants PSNI to investigate any cover-upVICTIMS' RESPONSE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has called on the PSNI to investigate whether there was a cover-up of criminal acts…Thu May 03 2012 - 01:00
Fine Gael official to chair session of Catholic priestsFine Gael general secretary Tom Curran is to chair a session of a day-long conference in Dublin next Monday organised by the …Wed May 02 2012 - 01:00
'We were assured there would be no recurrence of the abuse which I and other victims had suffered'How Church's handling of clerical child abuse led to court cases decades laterWed May 02 2012 - 01:00
Three Abbey Theatre plays win Stewart Parker awardsThree plays staged by the Abbey Theatre on the Peacock stage last year have won 2012 Stewart Parker Trust Awards.Tue May 01 2012 - 01:00
Redemptorists show public support for censured colleaguesTHE REDEMPTORIST community in Dublin’s Cherry Orchard have become the first in Ireland to declare publicly their support for …Tue May 01 2012 - 01:00
Fr D'Arcy fifth priest censured by VaticanONE OF Ireland’s best known priests Fr Brian D’Arcy has been censured by the Vatican over four articles he wrote for the Sunday…Fri Apr 27 2012 - 01:00
Fr Brian D'Arcy censured by VaticanThe Passionist congregation has confirmed that 14 months ago the Vatican acted against Fr Brian D’Arcy on articles he had written…Thu Apr 26 2012 - 01:00
Martin 'regret' over resignationArchbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has said he regrets a recent decision by a child safeguarding representative to step …Wed Apr 25 2012 - 01:00
Child advocate quits parish after discovery of 'restricted' priestA WOMAN who was the child safeguarding representative in a Dublin Catholic parish for over a decade has resigned following her…Wed Apr 25 2012 - 01:00
Church says sharing of ashes is inappropriateTHE CATHOLIC Church in Ireland would prefer that cremated remains of the faithful be buried in consecrated ground or installed…Tue Apr 24 2012 - 01:00
Church hopes that congress will mark road to recoveryAT THE Chrism Mass in the Cathedral of St Patrick and St Felim, in Cavan, on April 5th Bishop of Kilmore Leo O’Reilly said openly…Tue Apr 24 2012 - 01:00
Priest absconds to IrelandWhat is believed to be one of the largest individual settlements in the history of the US clerical sexual abuse scandal involved…Mon Apr 23 2012 - 01:00
Solidarity vigil at papal nunciatureA silent vigil in solidarity with Irish priests silenced by the Vatican is to take place at the papal nunciature on Dublin’s …Sat Apr 21 2012 - 01:00
Pope has consistently come down on dissent within the church like a hammerOPINION: TOMORROW is the seventh anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI on April 19th, 2005Wed Apr 18 2012 - 01:00
Curia is stifling debate on church reform, says silenced priestTHE VATICAN is an “ever-present elephant in the room” for those within the Catholic Church who wish to discuss reform, a priest…Wed Apr 18 2012 - 01:00
An Taisce calls for independent and more stringent planning regulatorTHE PROPERTY bubble followed a “catastrophic and systemic failure” in planning, an An Taisce study has found.Tue Apr 17 2012 - 01:00
Support for priest on Vatican censureTHE MARIST priest and theologian Fr Seán Fagan has been advised by Rome that if any word of their latest action against him reached…Tue Apr 17 2012 - 01:00
Donegal 'has worst planning record'The Celtic Tiger property bubble followed a “catastrophic and systemic failure” where planning was concerned, an An Taisce study…Mon Apr 16 2012 - 01:00
Roscrea conference director honouredA SPECIAL presentation was made to George Cunningham at the 50th consecutive biannual Roscrea conference at Mount St Joseph (…Mon Apr 16 2012 - 01:00
