The Vatican has formally responded to the findings of the Cloyne report and to criticism levelled against it by the Government in the wake of its publication.

IN the understandable furore over the Cloyne report I find it strange that the same level of outrage and media coverage never arises when abuse takes place outside religious institutions.

SPECIAL rates for Sunday work will not apply to new employees in the retail, hospitality and other sectors under proposals brought to Cabinet this week, Minister for Employment Richard Bruton has confirmed.

IN an interview published on June 28 with Eamon Gilmore, leader of the Labour party, your political correspondent Shaun Connolly wrote that Mr Gilmore urges “… Pope Benedict XVI to ‘temper’ statements such as claiming that ‘saving’ humanity from homosexuality was as important as protecting the rain forests.

THE resignations of three more Irish bishops will be accepted by the Pope in the coming weeks following the departure yesterday of the Bishop of Cloyne.

THE resignations of three more Irish bishops will be accepted by the Pope in the coming weeks following the departure yesterday of the Bishop of Cloyne.

A Vatican meeting between Irish bishops and Pope Benedict XVI will enter its second day today with the past handling of child abuse scandals top of the agenda.

The authorities are paralysed to bring paedophile priests and the senior clerics who covered up decades of horrific abuse to justice, victims have claimed today.

A Vatican meeting between Irish bishops and Pope Benedict XVI gets under way today with the past handling of child abuse scandals on the agenda.

SURVIVORS of institutional abuse have met with a representative of the Bishop of Cork and Ross in relation to donations made to Right of Place.

CATHOLIC schools are to hold firm to their religious ethos despite the growing numbers of children from other faiths — or no faith — on their enrolment.

CATHOLIC Church leaders in a Mediterranean holiday resort have threatened to ban Irish ‘wedding tourists’ who think more about the holiday aspect of their trip than holy vows.

The Irish Bishops Conference has called on the Government to introduce new legislation aimed at preventing human trafficking.

THE Catholic Church is compounding injustice by forcing priests at the centre of child sex abuse allegations to stand down, it was claimed yesterday.

Ireland's Catholic bishops have called on the Government to immediately introduce a cross-border vetting system for people working with children.

The Catholic pregnancy advice service day accepted orders from the Church to stop distributing leaflets which contain information on abortion.

MOST Irish priests favour an end to the celibacy rule and believe such a move would encourage more people into the priesthood.

THE Catholic Church was under fire again on the issue of clerical child sex abuse last night after the discovery of papers which appear to show the hierarchy had orders from the Vatican to cover up the scandal.

FRESH safeguards are planned by the Catholic Church to ensure procedures for the protection of children from sex abuse come up to national standards and are not restricted by canon law.

CATHOLIC bishops were accused last night of breaking their promises to support victims of clerical sex abuse.

THE Archdiocese of Dublin claims it has no jurisdiction over an Irish priest who fled the US last July just days before a warrant was issued for his arrest on child sexual abuse charges.

CONVICTED child sex abuser Fr Ivan Payne is to leave the priesthood in a bid to get free from the monitoring which he must submit to as a member of the church.

THE Government and the gardaí are bracing for a flood of further revelations about clerical child sex abuse as attention turns to dioceses outside Dublin and Ferns, Co Wexford.