“I make a heartfelt appeal to the international community to react decisively and quickly to see to it that such tragedies are not repeated" - Pope Francis.
Rome Synod ought to be addressing issues such as the child sex ratio in India and interfaith marriages according to Dr Astrid Lobo Gajiwala.
“Church renewal is coming primarily through an emphasis on collegiality and the restoration of the synodal process to what it was intended to be in Vatican II" - Austen Ivereigh.
UN Secretary General, Ban ki-Moon, will meet Pope Francis in the Vatican later this month to issues including climate change.
Cardinal O'Malley "listened carefully to all our concerns and will be bringing them to the Holy Father in the next week” - Marie Collins.
Bishop of Elphin warns that many who support Church's teaching on marriage wonder if they are entitled to express this view publicly anymore.
“We put ourselves at the service of others especially those most in need in our society: the poor, the sick, the vulnerable, those who feel alienated from God”.
Pontiff calls on heads of state and international organisations to recognise the truth of what happened in Armenian genocide in which 1.5m lost their lives.
As a sign of communion of the whole Church, the Pope has requested that every diocese in the world open a 'Door of Mercy' for local celebrations of the Jubilee year.
Forty representatives from around the world include Austrian couple excommunicated for holding private Masses without a priest.
Fr Alphonsus Cullinan will be ordained Bishop of Waterford & Lismore this Sunday.
Court overruled plan that would have divided the Cremisan monastery, near Bethlehem, stating that it “violated the rights” of the people of Beit Jala.
Religious conflict has become marketable, Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III of Antioch and All the East warns.
"May the international community not stand by before the immense humanitarian tragedy unfolding in these countries."
We must stand up to the men of violence Archbishop Martin exhorts in Way of the Cross reflection.
Polish saint showed the sick how to “carry the cross of suffering with joy” - Pope Francis.
Pope Francis marks 500th anniversary of the Spanish nun, mystic and reformer of the Carmelite Order's birth in March 1515.
“We all have a part to play in protecting and sustaining our common home,” the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace said in his keynote address on Pope Francis's “integral ecology”.
Workplace exploitation, the unemployed's loss of dignity and the need for good politics highlighted by Pontiff in Naples address.
Disgraced former leader of the Scottish Catholic Church will retain title of cardinal but won't exercise any of the privileges associated with the office.
Letters sent to Archbishop from no supporters in marriage referendum containing "obnoxious, insulting and unchristian" language towards gay and lesbian people.
Pope Francis declares Irish foundress of Religious Sisters of Charity Venerable.
Bishop of Limerick tells Three Faiths Forum that religion has "a very valuable role to play in the transformation of conflict".
Irish faithful urged to imitate St Patrick and the great Irish missionary endeavours of past centuries and become 'missionaries of mercy' for today's world.
Can Pope Francis hold the Catholic Church together and reform it at the same time?
Pontiff announces special Jubilee Year of Mercy to begin on Feast of the Immaculate Conception and continue until Feast of Christ the King in 2016.
Special opportunities will be available in dioceses for prayer and confession over today and tomorrow.
Parishes and lay groups adapt Lineamenta of the 2014 Synod of the Family and questions and send outcomes to Rome.
Two projects whose work benefits women and their communities receive ‘Women: Sowers of Development’ prize at Vatican event.
"Irreversibility of this punishment does not allow for eventual corrections in the case of wrongful convictions."
