Monsignor Eamon Martin has been appointed assistant bishop in the Archdiocese of Armagh, as Cardinal Sean Brady plans to retire as head of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

IN THE first sign of a reaction by the Vatican to the Cloyne report, its press officer has claimed the Holy See never instructed Irish bishops to withhold information on abuse cases.

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.”

A CATHOLIC priest removed from editing a church magazine after publishing articles about clerical child sex abuse has criticised the religious orders’ response to the Ryan Report.

The first Roman Catholic priest to be charged for killings and kidnappings under Argentina’s former dictatorship has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.