Fr Paddy Mooney PP of St. Patrick's Church in Glenamaddy is giving the ashes to parishioners as they pass through.

Ireland is facing into a spiritual “famine” because it is running out of priests, a Catholic cleric has said.

Pope Francis has declined to approve the ordination of married men to address the priest shortage in the Amazon, sidestepping a fraught issue that has dominated debate in the Catholic Church and even involved retired Pope Benedict XVI.

A former monk at a Catholic boarding school in England has admitted abusing two boys in the parish he was sent to after confessing to sexual contact with a pupil.

The parish priest of Newbridge in Co Kildare has been named Bishop of the Diocese of Achonry.

One of the things that constantly changes in our lives is how we treat death and the rituals around that inevitability.

Large crowds are expected in a Kerry church this evening to be blessed with one of Padre Pio’s trademark fingerless gloves.

A Catholic parish in the Midlands has apologised for the hurt it caused with a Facebook post which said that IVF treatment was "totally incompatible" with its faith.

Clerical abuse victims have welcomed the decision by Pope Francis to abolish the Vatican’s strict secrecy rules covering sex abuse proceedings.

The Catholic Archdiocese in Dublin has started a process of changing the way children prepare for their First Communion and other sacraments.

Bishop Francis Duffy says in particular, state investment must address the immediate needs of those whose jobs will end in 2020.

Former president Mary McAleese has said allowing women to become permanent deacons would help end ‘embedded misogyny’ which ‘goes very deep in the church’

The Association of Catholic Priests, who represent over 1,000 clergymen in Ireland, says reform is urgently needed to prevent parishes from closing across the country.

Catholic bishops have voted to back a move to allow married men become priests at a conference in Rome.

I refer to the Irish Examiner article of Friday October 18, 2019, re: Bishop Cullinan.

A bishop has given his support for a specially devised delegation process for the ordination of women priests.

Killala diocese is typical of many Catholic dioceses in Ireland.

The most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children has lodged an appeal in Australia's highest court against his convictions for molesting two choirboys in a cathedral more than two decades ago.

This week, two priests took up opposing positions on what is and is not appropriate for a Catholic funeral Mass.

The new Bishop of Clonfert has said people of faith must prepare for a much changed world and become navigators of a new and ever deeper evangelisation.

Once again the First Communion and Confirmation time is over for another year. But the expense may not be and may cause worry to families for a long time after the occasion is over.

Cardinal John Henry Newman was the first rector of the Catholic University of Ireland in 1854, with the institution later becoming UCD.

As the second eldest in a family of seven the new Bishop of Cork and Ross, Most Rev Fintan Gavin, is well versed in team work so it was a natural fit for him to heavily feature the Church of Ireland Bishop the Right Rev Dr John Colton and Bishop Emeritus Most Reverend John Buckley in his ordination ceremony.

The Catholic Bishop-elect of Cork and Ross busted some serious dance moves as he promised to take on the mandate of renewal across the vast diocese.

There has been a great deal of outrage expressed at the treatment of former Garda Majella Moynihan.

The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland has warned against complacency when it comes to child safety following a slight increase in the number of allegations notified to it.

"Barefaced lying in the face of God” should not be tolerated by the Catholic community according to a Cork priest.

Catholic schools want key preparations for sacraments such as confirmation and communion to take place outside the classroom.

The move is part of a new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks.

On the night of April 15, 2019, in Paris, the emotions were raw.

The CSO yesterday published data on the 21,053 marriages held last year.

Just hours before pledging support for his successor, the Bishop Emeritus of Cork and Ross was visiting the sick in Cork University Hospital, supporting, among others, a man from West Cork who had lost several fingers in a horrific lawnmower accident.

Father Fintan Gavin, 53, will become the fourth bishop to be appointed by the Vatican to join the Diocese of Cork and Ross, since it was formed in 1958.

His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed Fr Fintan Gavin, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Dublin, as the new Bishop of Cork and Ross.

Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a known predator priest to police, the Vatican said.

A Bishop has warned of the challenges facing the Catholic Church, with the number of priests in his diocese set to halve in the next decade.

Nuns have always been second class citizens in the Church, writes Alison O’Connor

Catholic religious orders from around the world have apologised for having failed to respond when their priests raped children, acknowledging that their family-like communities blinded them to sexual abuse and led to misplaced loyalties, denial and cover-ups.

A judge in France has refused to block the release in French cinemas of a film based on a Catholic sex scandal.

Five Catholic churches in Dublin are trialling contactless card machines to counteract the decline in cash donations.

The Catholic Church is facing a large tax bill next year after losing an appeal against the inclusion on the vacant sites register of lands it owns at Blackpool in Cork.

Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has cautioned anti-abortion campaigners against protesting at GP surgeries that offer abortion services.

Pope Francis has vowed that the Catholic Church will "never again" cover up clergy sex abuse and demanded that priests who have raped and molested children turn themselves in.

The Association of Catholic Priests (APC) has written an open letter to the bishops, urging them to convene a national assembly to address the crisis facing Catholicism in Ireland and to consider reforms.

Fr Naughton had been an abuser of children for 25 years, transferred from parish to parish.

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Ireland's only self-confessed 'Ghostbusting' hermit priest has claimed that consecrated hosts are being stolen from Irish churches for use in Satanic rituals.

Research by Queen’s University Belfast has found a plurality of Irish people believe that Pope Francis did not do enough to address clerical abuse during his recent papal visit to Ireland.

The devil is alive and well and working overtime to undermine the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis has said.