Terenure College, which was founded by the Carmelites in 1860, is to close its private junior school in 2018 due to falling numbers.
More than 50 million stateless people around the world today are prey to exploitation.
Up to 100,000 people flee coastal areas to avoid Hagupit which makes landfall this afternoon and may affect up to 32 million people.
Pontiff invites International Theological Commission “to draw greater profit from this specific contribution of women to the understanding of the faith.”
Equality would be best served by diversity of adoption providers with reasonable accommodation in law for those of a particular religious ethos: NI bishops.
"We have left our families who we won’t see again until after Christmas. Some of us have made a will for the first time..." writes young Irish doctor.
Faithful and people of goodwill urged to support their neighbour, the vulnerable and the elderly.
New pastoral statement says "Marriage should be reserved for the unique and complementary relationship between a woman and a man.”
Concerns that female prisoners being held in St George’s monastery are being abused there.
Video sent to TheJournal.ie showed the cutting down of the cross with an angle grinder.
Primate of Ireland calls for urgent public summit to address pressing need for emergency accommodation for the homeless.
The Ripple container project is a charity initiative which will see a homeless family in Cork housed before Christmas.
Seeing the nativity scene will help students of St Raphael’s Special School to visualise and understand the Christmas story.
Donations of non-perishable food sought to restock food bank for those most need this Christmas and into 2015.
“We need to stamp out the stigma that still exists around HIV" - Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke.
Author and former alcoholic “saddened” by decision to move statue of sobriety priest from Dublin's O'Connell Street.
“Religious life is only authentic when it is marked by humility” - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
Ecumenical Patriarch and Pope's joint declaration condemns global indifference to ISIS persecution of Christians.
Parishioners invited to take a packet of chamomile seeds for their home and one for someone they would like to reach out to.
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.
Muslim, Jews and Christians must enjoy same rights and respect the same duties so they see each other as brothers and sisters.
Government Social Housing Strategy welcomed but 20% more people sleeping rough in November alone.
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.
Vandalising of five metre steel cross sparks debate over whether Christian symbols should be placed on public landmarks.
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.
To shake off its malaise, he said, Europe needs to recover a sense of values and mission, one foundation for which is religious conviction.
