“I want to encourage lay people and Catholics generally to stay involved in social media. You could say it’s a negative environment, there’s a lot of nasty comment, a lot of rough dealings with people. But then we’d abandon that field and let the trolls have it” - Bishop Paul Tighe.

Sydney-based Institute of Theological Education and Bray-based communications and technology services company to offer high quality distance theological education online in Ireland and the UK.

“He gave great witness to his faith in the way in which he bore his illness with courage and dignity, and in the way he accepted his final diagnosis.”

Youngest priest in the diocese, Fr Michael Geraghty, who was ordained in 2015, to head up Killaloe's social media engagement.

Tropical cyclone claims the lives of 42 people and damages parishes and schools and other infrastructure.

Fr Dermot Ryan is director of adult faith development in the diocese as well as chairperson of the Ossory council of priests.

Appointment as assistant secretary to the Pontifical Council for Culture is a sign of Pope Francis' personal appreciation of his work: Archbishop Martin.

EWTN founder, fed through feeding tube, offers suffering 'for Jesus'.

Mgr Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication, marks 40th anniversary of the Catholic Communications Office in Maynooth.

Primate suggests Maynooth offer a theology course specifically tailored for those working in Church communications and religious affairs.

New Secretariat for Communications will act as umbrella for nine communications offices including Pontifical Council for Social Communications and Vatican Radio.

"Initially we will reach out to those devoted to the Church, but once we are established we hope to bring lukewarm Catholics back to faith."

Archbishop Eamon Martin, chair of the Bishops’ Council for Communications, welcomes this year’s message from Pope Francis.

But proximity to RTE's bandwidth making it more difficult for Spirit to roll out service on FM across whole of Ireland.

Head of the Vatican's Press Office awarded an honorary doctorate by Rome university.

“Today the Church must learn again how to show that the family is a great gift, something good and beautiful."

In first message for World Communications Day, Pope Francis chooses: Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter.

Over 160,000 people tuning in to the station with 'passion for life'

Technology bridges generations as teens and seniors discover each other

"The fundamental challenge is not a technological one ... but of bringing people to Christ."

Tony Curran explains the purpose of Catholic Comment, why he got involved as a speaker and his sense of the need for lay catholics to find their voice.

Jo Smith interviews Miriam Gormally about the interviews that Soul Waves Radio makes available weekly to over 30 local and community radio stations and posts to their website.

Brian Grogan SJ explains the inspiration behind the widely popular on-line prayer resource and how it has also turned into a publishing success.

Fr Thomas Rosica, founding CEO of Salt and Light Television, Canada’s first national Catholic Television Network is joined by Sebastian Gomes who joined Salt and Light TV earlier this year.

Fr Thomas Rosica, the founding CEO of Salt and Light Television, addressed the topic – is there a Catholic Media and is the Media for Catholics?

Watch an interview recorded at IEC2012 with one of the organisers of Catholic Comment – Petra Conroy – and one of their newly trained speakers – Kevin Leavy..

Fr Paddy Byrne explains why he opened his twitter account (@frpaddybyrne) and what he has learned about engaging with people on-line.

Compiled by Brenda Drumm, this book brings together the Papal World Communications Day messages of Popes Paul IV, John Paul II and Benedict XVI over the past 40 years and some of the key church documents on social communications issued duing that period.

Every year on the Sunday before Pentecost the Church celebrates the achievements of the communications media and focuses of how it can best use them to promote gospel values. Patrick Duffy explains what it is and refers to both the achievements and new initiatives of CatholicIreland.net.

The editor of “Studies”, Fergus O’Donoghue SJ, writes about the cultural apostolate he and his counterparts in other countries exercise through being editor of the Jesuit cultural journals.