Audience came at the end of formation course for new bishops organised by the Congregation for Bishops and the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

A year of centenary celebrations gets underway to mark Oscar Romero's birth in El Salvador on 15 August 1917.

“Today our witness to the distress of refugees should be a call to action.”

"We live in a world where the name of God is used to foster attitudes and deeds which could not be farther away from the real identity of God.”

“Men, women and children suffer because of weapons of mass destruction and we fail to respond, seduced by weapons of mass distraction.”

“To pass through the Holy Door means to rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them."

Report on the work of Irish missionaries in the Philippines and Korea helping the marginalised and most disadvantaged.

External forms of piety without “a real conversion are not enough to be considered in communion with Christ and his Church”.

Fr Vincent Mulligan is the first Irish person to be awarded the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers’ honour.

Church needs to be concerned for, and present in, the world of communication, Archbishop Eamon Martin affirms.