The Diocese of Cloyne has upheld the decision by one of its priests to remove one of its parishioners from the reading rota due to his stance on abortion.

Fr Tony Flannery has said the Bishop of Cloyne’s intervention to stop him addressing a parish event in East Cork shows the Church’s claim of wanting to give voice to the laity was “empty and meaningless talk”.

Hundreds of people gathered at a church in Mourneabbey last night for a Mass of Hope for missing student Karen Buckley as word filtered through that police in Scotland had detained a man for questioning in relation to her disappearance.

The new Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, Cork-born Bishop Kieran O’Reilly, will be installed early in 2015.

A Trinity graduate has turned his back on a career in pharmacy to serve God.

Two 12 year-olds yesterday were confirmed by the Pope at a ceremony in St Peter’s Square in Rome.

A boy and a girl from Co Cork will have the honour of being the first Irish people to be confirmed by Pope Francis in a ceremony to be held in St Peter’s Square, Rome, next Sunday.

Bishop of Cloyne William Crean has said his heart goes out to the family of a seven-year-old boy who died a day after falling into a flooded river near his home.

A retired priest has been found unanimously guilty of sexual abuse and defrocked by the Diocese of Cloyne following a secret ecclesiastical tribunal.

The Pope’s representative in Ireland, Charles Brown, will be the principal ordaining bishop later this month at the ordination of Canon William Crean as bishop of Cloyne.

The Catholic Church understands the need to deal fully with the scars of child abuse since his criticism of the Vatican, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said ahead of his meeting today with the Pope.

The country’s newest priest plans to reach out to the Facebook generation and encourage them back to the Church.

The parents of a young child have asked for prayers that the switch-on of his “bionic ear” will prove successful.

Among vulnerable sections of Irish society, many people can justly claim to be victimised by the failure of politicians to legislate.

Communities will be involved in any plans to radically reorganise the amount of dioceses in this country, according to the summary report presented by the Vatican team who visited the country last year.

County Cork VEC has voted to hire outside legal advisers to tell if any of its members or staff were defamed by news reports on waste and mismanagement in operations under its control.

CCVEC will no longer be able to avoid giving answers, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

FR RONAT had an “obsessive and unhealthy” relationship with a teenage boy whom he used to take to sporting events but was also taking into his bed.

THE diocese of Cloyne has said it has “no plans” to use church basket collections to pay damages to victims of clerical sex abuse in civil cases.

ENDA KENNY says he stands over his blistering criticism of the Vatican and has repeated his charge that Rome failed to co-operate with a state inquiry into child sexual abuse as little as three years ago.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he did not regret his unprecedented attack on the Vatican after it rejected his claims that it tried to frustrate an inquiry into clerical child abuse.

The Vatican has flatly rejected damning claims by Taoiseach Enda Kenny that it tried to frustrate an inquiry into clerical child abuse, insisting the allegations are unfounded.

All-Ireland primate Cardinal Sean Brady has welcomed the Vatican's response to the Cloyne Report and claimed it conveyed "profound abhorrence" for the abuse.

CATHOLICS should not contribute to any special collections organised by dioceses in financial trouble as a result of having to pay large sums to victims of clerical sex abuse, a government TD has urged.

THE former child protection delegate in the Diocese of Cloyne has attempted to explain his failure to report complaints of child sex abuse by saying the accused priests were often aged or sick.

THE Catholic Bishops Conference, in a synchronised set of four announcements in March 2009, advised that Pope Benedict XVI appointed the Archbishop of Cashel & Emly as Apostolic Administrator to the Diocese of Cloyne at the request for Bishop John Magee.

Priests from all over Cork were due to meet today to air their views on the findings of the Cloyne Report.

A PICTURE of Bishop John Magee has been removed from a church in Co Cork as parishioners there found it upsetting in the wake of the Cloyne report.

A PRIEST from the Diocese of Cloyne has called on diocesan officials to provide details of the 1999 unfair dismissal case, which was withdrawn after Bishop John Magee reportedly paid the former employee £40,000 and demanded a confidentiality clause.

I FEEL again compelled to take issue with the nature of political, press and interest group reaction to the Cloyne Report and the ongoing fallout in terms of the Vatican’s relations with Ireland.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s blistering attack on the Catholic Church should be a wake-up call for dishonest and immoral clergymen, it has been warned.

IT’S crystal clear once again with the revelation in the Murphy report into the Diocese of Cloyne that the institutional church’s secrecy and methods of operation are dysfunctional.

The senior cleric overseeing the Diocese of Cloyne has today apologised to victims of abuse in an open letter to parishioners.

Parishioners in the Diocese of Cloyne will hear a letter written by the Archbishop Dermot Clifford at masses this evening and tomorrow morning.

MASS-GOERS should boycott church collections tomorrow, according to a priest who left the Diocese of Cloyne 12 years ago over his disgust at the covering-up of sex abuse.

PRESSURE is growing on Bishop John Magee to return home to deal with the fallout from the damning Cloyne report, as the Government demands answers from the Vatican regarding its “inappropriate intervention” in child protection here.

THE Diocese of Cloyne failed to adequately investigate claims by an elderly stroke patient that he was abused as a child in a priest’s home after confession.

THE case of Fr Kael (not his real name) is one of the few incidences in the Cloyne Report that was deemed to have been handled correctly.

THE commission criticised the make-up of an inter-diocesan case management advisory committee set up in 2005 by the Diocese of Cloyne in conjunction with the Diocese of Limerick.

BISHOP John Magee bears “primary responsibility” for the “inadequate and inappropriate response” to complaints of clerical child sex abuse in the Diocese of Cloyne.

BISHOP John Magee last night stood accused of lying to the state over child protection procedures in the Cloyne Diocese, where he and his senior assistant failed a succession of victims of clerical sex abuse.

The Irish Bishops Conference in 1996 lay out the procedures for handling allegations and suspicions of clerical child sex abuse in a document entitled “Child Sexual Abuse: Framework for a Church Response.”

Former Bishop John Magee has apologised for failing the victims of abusive priests under his authority.

The Cloyne abuse report includes an account of some interaction between Bishop John Magee and a teenager in the diocese. The case is detailed here in a lengthy extract from the report.