The image of Pope Francis as a great reformer doesn’t yet hold true, writes TP O’Mahony

The Archbishop of Canterbury tonight said he was “delighted” after the General Synod overwhelmingly backed legislation introducing the first women bishops in the Church of England.

Over 50 years ago, a cardinal asked the Vatican Council: ‘Where’s the other half of humanity?’ In her own inimitable way, Mary McAleese last week posed the same question, writes TP O’ Mahony.

THE recent disclosure during the trial of Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, that he stole highly sensitive documents the pontiff had marked “to be destroyed”, raises the intriguing question: What else is missing from the papal archives?

The lack of progress in Northern Ireland’s peace process is eroding public interest in politics, the Primate of Ireland’s Anglicans warned today.