A 23-YEAR-OLD Irishman has been arrested in New York on suspicion of murdering his American ex-girlfriend.

None of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will be released early, apart from their statutory entitlement to remission for good behaviour, the Taoiseach told the Dáil today.

THE widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will be celebrating her grandson’s Holy Communion on the day the first of her husband’s killers is released from prison.

A kidnapped Missouri boy gave a hint as to the ordeal he suffered when he told a US television audience he “never wanted any kid to go through what I went through".

AN UPCOMING Vatican document on gays and the priesthood says men who demonstrate homosexual tendencies can’t become priests unless they can show they have lived chastely for at least three years, an Italian newspaper reported yesterday today.

An upcoming Vatican document on gays and the priesthood says men who demonstrate homosexual tendencies cannot become priests unless they can show they have lived chastely for at least three years, an Italian newspaper reported today.

America’s top bishop said the days of sheltering sex abusers in the Roman Catholic priesthood were “history”, following reports showing the extent of assaults on children over the last half-century and saying church leaders bore much of the blame.

AMERICAN bishops were blamed yesterday for failing to stop widespread clerical sex abuse which resulted in almost 11,000 abuse claims against Catholic clergy over the past 50 years.

Two unprecedented studies that document pervasive sex abuse by US Roman Catholic clergy found nearly 11,000 young people have claimed they were molested since 1950, and that bishops bear much of the responsibility for the crisis.

THE Boston Archdiocese, the epicentre of the US clergy sex abuse crisis that has shaken the Roman Catholic Church, released a report yesterday showing that 162 of its priests have been accused of molesting 815 minors since 1950.