Alex Perry meets the would-be world leader Tony Blair

A senior Vatican-based cardinal has accused Fr Tony Flannery, the founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, of undermining the faith of Catholics.

There is “no question” of Fr Tony Flannery facing excommunication, senior Vatican sources have told The Irish Catholic newspaper.

Superstitious about the number 13? You’re not alone, writes John Daly.

Christians have long marked Jesus Christ's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday but new research by a leading academic suggests they have got the wrong date.

A male apprentice, long-time companion and possible lover of Leonardo da Vinci was the main influence and a model for the Mona Lisa painting, an Italian researcher said.

WHILE the Catholic Church claims that going to mass is a re-enactment of the Last Supper and the paschal mystery, in my eyes there is no valid reason to do so every Sunday.

Michael Jackson took centre stage for the final time today at a funeral service at which friends and family were given the opportunity to grieve in private.

Michael Jackson will not be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday as originally planned, a spokesman for his family confirmed today.

THE Greens have suddenly become the sulky, surly teenagers of Irish politics.

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IT’S a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real. An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper.

IT’S DINNER, for God’s sake. It’s not the Last Supper.

POPE Benedict XVI washed the feet of 12 men yesterday, re-enacting Jesus’s washing of his apostles’ feet during the Last Supper and saying the act cleansed the “filth” of mankind.

The Passion of the Christ director Mel Gibson is considering recreating Jesus Christ's crucifixion in the streets of Sydney, Australia - if the city wins its bid to host a major Catholic gathering.

GIVE a Frenchman the chance to mock America and he will take it. It has ever been so - but especially in these days when American restaurants have been pouring French wine down their sinks and renaming ‘French fries’ as freedom fries.

AN eight-year-old girl who suffers from a rare digestive disorder and cannot eat wheat has had her first Holy Communion declared invalid because the wafer contained no wheat, violating Catholic doctrine.

Roman soldiers bearing torches and spears emerged from an olive grove, shoving and kicking a stumbling Jesus in a Passion play in his boyhood town, starring a local construction worker.

WHY is the Irish Catholic Church so determined to make church-going such an uncomfortable experience.