In 2015 service helped almost three quarters of a million refugees.
71 year old man from Cahirciveen now setting sights on Camino.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will be one of sixteen strong board.
Theft causes "loss of time and loss of heart, where you feel that stuff just can’t be left alone" says Rector.
Already calls for new law, demanding assisted suicide for non-terminal illnesses.
Church is built on young people, Archbishop Brown tells Youth 2000 summer festival.
Struggle against human trafficking demonstrates new PM's commitment to the most vulnerable.
Praises Irish missionaries, "who created strong bonds" between peoples of Ireland and Uganda.
"There is a risk of genocide in South Sudan. Write it in large letters, so that someone from the international community intervenes before it is too late," is appeal from local Church.
"The vote said 'You have been doing it wrong for so many years and now change your ways'. Somehow in our priorities as politicians we have failed the people," says UK peer.
Daily ceremonies of popular novena to be streamed on shrine internet site and on Radio Maria.
Forty-one-year-old Rev Warren Collier spent 16 years working as a driver for Bus Éireann before studying for the priesthood at the Beda College in Rome.
2016 is a special year for the entire Dominican Family as it celebrates the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Order of Preachers.
Proposed 36% increase in the Public Service Obligation Levy (PSO) will wipe out almost 50% of recent savings for electricity customers.
In contrast to the “holiness, solitude and peacefulness” of the French Marian shrine, daily lives are typically drenched with stories and images from social media, newspapers, magazines, television and films.
"All lives matter: black, white, Muslim, Christian, Hindu. We are all children of God and all human life is precious.”
Effects of footfall from 100,000 pilgrims every year has resulted in a substantial amount of erosion.
“The attack on Christians has been immense. Pray for their safety in this chaotic situation” - Chaldean Archbishop Bashar M. Warda told the UK-based Release International.
Garden is to be a place in view of the Shrine for bereaved parents and is dedicated to the memory of all deceased children.
First cohort of Cork-based Respond! students looking forward to careers as qualified carers having graduated with a Healthcare Support Certificate.
As Wallace Bill is voted down, One Day More criticise Alliance Ministers John Halligan and Shane Ross for having spent the week talking about their children but never bothering to meet them.
“With the adverse effect on trade, people’s income and ability to donate could be negatively impacted, which raises concerns for fundraisers.”
Up to 200 choristers and musicians attend summer school in Maynooth to hone their musical skills and realise they are 'not alone'.
“If we wait to see the images that haunted us thirty years ago before we intervene, we will have failed the people of Ethiopia."
Pope tells Munich rally Europe should be an open and welcoming continent, and continue to establish ways of working together that are not only economic but also social and cultural.
“In times of strength, of weakness and great persecution, we remained steadfast, thanks to the support and generosity of you and your ancestors, the people of Limerick.”
Whip will not be applied to non Fine Gael deputies in upcoming vote on amendment to the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, allowing abortion in the case of so-called 'fatal foetal abnormalities'.
“We have regional meetings throughout the year and (this year) all past records have been broken in terms of numbers, which have just been huge."
New approach will see priests work across different parishes and while there won’t necessarily be a priest living in every parish, there will be a parish priest for every parish.
Over the coming year the diocese will see Sean Jones ordained a priest - exactly ten years since the last priestly ordination in Kerry.