Egyptian Christians have buried their dead a day after suicide bombers from the so-called 'Islamic State' group killed at least 45 people in co-ordinated attacks targeting Palm Sunday services in two cities.

When William crushed the deposed Catholic King James ll and his Jacobite army of some 25,000 men, the victory was celebrated with songs and prayers in the Catholic cathedrals of William’s allies — the Dutch, the Danes, and the Germans, writes Clodagh Finn.

A priest has published a memoir as a way of raising urgent truths about the Church he has served for 60 years, writes Helen O’Callaghan 

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. 

We have managed to overlook this huge centenary of Irish sacrifice on the world stage, writes Victoria White

Relics of the two popes to be canonised tomorrow are to be installed during the St Peter’s ceremony in Tralee’s Dominican priory.

LAST month saw the Cheltenham Festival, the election of the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years and the continuing saga of horseflesh sold as beef.

...In addition to resolving the child abuse, corruption and banking scandals, will you shed infallibility and extend an olive branch to Christians in the east to unite the Church once more? asks AN Wilson

The musical Crusade is the true story of the boy who hoped to liberate the Holy Land, says Colette Sheridan

I thought that on the anniversary of the excommunication of Martin Luther it would be a good time for me to add my tupennyworth regarding the silencing of dissent amongst Irish clergy by the Vatican.

COMPARE and contrast, if you will, the utterances of two Catholic priests.

Dan Buckley profiles a priest at odds with some dogmas of the Church

Pope Benedict XVI has spoken of his regret that Christians have largely become a population of non-believers.

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The DUP leader, Ian Paisley, has launched a strong attack on Pope Benedict XVI as he prepares to speak to a rally of the Independent Orange Order in Ballymoney, Co Antrim.

THE number of Guantanamo Bay prisoners taking part in a hunger strike that began nearly five months ago has surged to 84 since Christmas Day.

A €5 MILLION fundraising campaign is under way to save one of the country’s most historic churches.

The world of Christendom, like an extended family, yesterday held vigil for Pope John Paul II, who lay unconscious and gravely ill in his Vatican sickbed.

Pope John Paul’s condition stabilised today after he was rushed to hospital with breathing trouble, but the flu-stricken pontiff will spend several more days at the clinic, the Vatican said.

WELL, it is now official. Waterford business leaders have, through the chamber of commerce, declared Waterford the city of Luddites.

YOOHOO KIlkenny, yoohoo Waterford. Ferrybank calling.