We welcome moves to include Westbank Orphanage, Greystones, in inquiries into institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.

POLITICIANS and church leaders have paid tribute to the efforts of Cardinal Cahal Daly in helping end the Troubles.

Politicians and church leaders today paid tribute to the legacy of Cardinal Cahal Daly, who died last night in Belfast City Hospital at the age of 92.

Who can grudge anyone the desire to find some apparently secure port when life gets stormy? At moments of crisis, however, such certainties can be, quite literally, lethal. If I have no doubts at all about my own position, and you express doubts about it, you become a living offence to everything I stand for

Presbyterians across Ireland are being advised to write directly to the British prime minister and ask him to step in and rescue their savings.

SO Cardinal Seán Brady believes the Bishop of Cloyne has learned his lesson and has no need to resign.

THOUSANDS of Presbyterians face losing millions of pounds following the collapse of a mutual society, it was revealed yesterday.

PROOF that something is rotten in the state of the North came at the weekend with the resignation of Ian Paisley as moderator of his own Free Presbyterian Church.

Presbyterian Church leaders urged Sinn Féin today to publicly support the police in the North.

IN his feature article headlined ‘Sectarian wind up’ (Irish Examiner, June 26), Niall Meehan seems either to ignore or conveniently forget the facts surrounding the killing of Protestants in the west Cork area in the 1920s.

IN September 2001, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, caused dismay in ecclesiastical circles when he said Christianity in Britain had been all but vanquished.

The Presbyterian Church in the North has said it has lost all trust in Sinn Féin following the IRA's alleged involvement in the Belfast bank heist.

WHAT was it Christ said about greater joy in heaven over the finding of one lost sheep? What did he say about judging not?

I WAS one of those in the Informal prayer group outside Jesus Christ Superstar whom Katie Holly (The Irish Examiner letters, April 4) found so baffling. Unlike some other members of the public, however, she apparently did not ask us a few simple questions. (We did not have a statue of Our Lady — the one in the red cloak and the beard is Jesus, not Mary).

A row has erupted among Presbyterians in the North over the church’s decision to invite the Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Belfast, Alec Maskey, to its annual assembly this evening.

Twelve men, identified as members of at least three different militant Islamic groups, were arrested today and were being questioned about the weekend attack on a church that killed 16 people.