Abuse survivor and former papal advisor Marie Collins says she has no confidence in the newly-reconvened Vatican commission on clerical child sex abuse or in the Pope’s ability to deliver on the reforms it recommended.

A papal visit to Ireland could be on the cards after Taoiseach Enda Kenny confirmed he has been invited to attend the World Meeting of Families.

Like the sex lives of football players, we all want to handle a currency we can trade-up in, writes Gerard Howlin

Pope Francis is sending the next World Meeting of Families to Dublin in 2018. It is the largest Catholic gathering of families globally and, it meets every three years. The Pope may come too. It will be a great coming-together of Catholic families and potentially a culture clash., writes Gerard Howlin. 

Pope Francis met with a family who made a 20,000km trip over 194 days from Argentina to Philadelphia in an old Volkswagen van.

Pope Francis may visit Ireland in 2018 after announcing the world’s largest gathering of Catholic families is to be held in Dublin.