Ecumenical Patriarch and Pope's joint declaration condemns global indifference to ISIS persecution of Christians.
President of Caritas Syria, Bishop Antoine Audo SJ, describes conditions in Aleppo, ravaged by four years of conflict.
On second day of Turkey visit, Pontiff prays with Grand Mufti at Blue Mosque and later prays with Ecumenical Patriarch and celebrates Mass for Catholic communities.
Schools will have an opportunity to address outstanding maintenance issues - Fr Tom Denihan of CPMSA.
Dean Sammy Crooks, who died in a road accident in 1986, staged his first Christmas sit-out for charities in 1976, establishing a tradition continued by all his successors.
Extending civil marriage to include a relationship between people of the same sex will change the meaning of marriage.
Bill will hold sex buyers to account for their key role in fuelling organised crime and perpetrating abuse against victims of trafficking and exploitation.
Saint of the Gutters had a great love of Christmas and Advent in particular.
It will take at least 18 months until the new plan begins to deliver the first homes for people in need.
Fr Robert Reed is the CEO of a major Catholic television network in the US. He has just published his first book. He talks about the saints, priesthood, renewal and 'Renewed'.
Families urged to donate the cost of a meal for an imaginary Gazan guest in a bid to raise €150,000 for the Al Ahli Hospital.
New features incorporated into the calendar include a ‘Thought for Today’ voiced by contributors including members of the hierarchy.
Ordination of Fr Marius O'Reilly on Sunday is the second for the diocese this year.
Fr Brian Starken CSSp recounts how an inter-religious ceremony was held at an ‘Ebola cemetery’ in Sierra Leone to honour the virus' victims.
At their peak, the PBVM's schools in the town were catering for 1,000 pupils.
Celebrating the restoration of the Dublin church, Archbishop says the parish can begin to set priorities for its pastoral mission in the years to come.
Between now and Christmas, in the region of 140,000 people throughout the country will be visited by SVP volunteers.
Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Kieran O’Reilly SMA as Archbishop of Cashel & Emly following the resignation of Archbishop Dermot Clifford on grounds of age.
Archbishop Eamon Martin concelebrates Mass in Italy to mark 1,400th anniversary of death of St Columbanus.
Undocumented’s family life in the US often curtailed by daily stress and constant fear of arrest and deportation.
Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, to launch Advent Appeal for Al Ahli Hospital on Tuesday.
"Schools have to look to the education of the whole person, without ignoring the essential needs of the economy."
"In effect, it is the same as if Pope Francis himself said the Mass and gave the blessing”.
Delegates who attended Saturday’s gathering will remain on the synod journey right up to 2016.
The two groups aim to work for “an inclusive Church” where laity, religious and clergy work together in collaborative ministry.
Growing confusion and error about marriage "will weaken seriously if not totally compromise the Church’s witness” US prelate warns.
Archbishop Eamon Martin marks the opening of Prisons Week by suggesting that our prisons should be places where lives can be changed and turned around for the better.
Bishop of Limerick reminds conference on marriage and the family that “people need to be accepted in the concrete circumstances of life."
“If we as priests don’t encourage this culture of discernment, the young men who want to become priests ... will slip through the cracks.”
Funeral Mass in Belfast of Brendan Megraw - the 23-year-old who was abducted from his home in April 1978.
