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

The 'devastating' job losses announced by pharma giant Novartis earlier this week are a timely reminder for Ireland not to be over reliant on global companies and show the need to invest more in local indigenous industries, according to the Bishop of Cork & Ross.

John Buckley, 79, has served the Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross as bishop for over 20 years.

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

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.

The newly-ordained Bishop of Ossory has weighed into the debate on abortion on his first day in office, describing as “paradoxical and in some ways the ultimate delusion” the proposal to “extinguish” the right to life of a child.

The Association of Catholic Priests has asked Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan to withdraw his comments on the safety of the HPV vaccine.

The Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin has spoken of a “new reality” of fewer priests, the questionable viability of some churches, and the need for a “radical reappraisal” of parish communities.

A Catholic bishop has said the recommendations of Northern Ireland’s child abuse inquiry should be implemented with goodwill.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross will be manning an information stand at a careers fair in Cork today, in a new approach to recruiting to the priesthood.

Pope Francis has voiced support for a French cardinal who has faced allegations of covering up cases of paedophile priests in his Lyon parish, saying he should not resign.

A Dublin priest has been made a Bishop in the Vatican.

A US Episcopal bishop who killed a cyclist in Baltimore while driving drunk has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

A former Catholic archbishop has denied a suggestion by lawyers for RTÉ the reason a woman was deeply troubled and “skewed” in her relationships was because he had sexually exploited her when she was “a vulnerable child”.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a US bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected priestly child abuser in the first known case of a pope sanctioning bishops for covering up for paedophiles.

A retired Catholic bishop who waved a blood-stained white handkerchief during Bloody Sunday is to be awarded the freedom of the city where the shootings took place.

A Catholic Bishop has said he regrets any upset he may have caused when he claimed gay parents of children are not necessarily parents.

A meeting between the Catholic Bishop of Cork John Buckley and three city schools has failed to bring about an agreement on how to deal with dropping pupil numbers.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross John Buckley has invited the boards of management of three Cork city schools to a meeting to try to diffuse the row over plans by one of the schools to start enrolling junior infants.