Senator David Norris has told the Vatican to stop interfering in Ireland's domestic affairs.

A priest who was censured earlier this year by the Vatican has said he has not been warned about his future conduct ahead of two large regional meetings on the future of the Church in Cork and Galway.

The age-old national pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick got Vatican approval yesterday when Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Charles J Brown completed the climb and afterwards declared himself delighted by the experience.

An American lawyer who was abused by Fr Brendan Smyth has said that the Vatican has “blood on its hands” for its failure to inform Irish Church authorities that it had censured Smyth for abuse in the United States years before the 1975 secret inquiry.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has accused the Holy See of unwarranted interference in a government-ordered inquiry into clerical child abuse over three separate years.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs has not received any notice that the Papal Nuncio will be leaving Ireland, despite confirmation from Czech officials that he is due to move to Prague shortly.

EXPRESSING surprise and regret at some of the “excessive reactions” to the Cloyne Report the Vatican recalled its ambassador to Ireland to discuss the preparation of its response.

The Vatican has today expressed its "surprise and disappointment" at some responses to the Cloyne Report into clerical sex abuse.

There are reports that Vatican Radio has said that the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Giuseppe Leanza, has been recalled to the Vatican.

IN the light of the findings of the Cloyne Report the Irish Government should do the honourable thing and (a) break off diplomatic relations with the Vatican and (b) expel the Papal Nuncio.

A senior Fine Gael TD is calling for the Papal Nuncio to be expelled from the country.

The Pope’s ambassador to Ireland has been ordered to get answers from the Vatican on damning revelations that it allowed priests to ignore the law.

The Papal Nuncio Guiseppe Leanza said today that he is "distressed" at the findings of the Cloyne Report.

The Vatican’s unhelpful approach to clerical abuse inquiries in Ireland has been branded a disgrace by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is to seek a meeting with the Pope’s ambassador to Ireland over Rome’s role in the Cloyne scandal.

THE Vatican denials that a 1997 letter to bishops urged them not to carry out mandatory reporting of clerical child sex abuse was labelled “dishonest spin” by anti-abuse campaigners.

Bishop of Limerick Dr Donal Murray will address church-goers today as speculation intensifies that he has offered his resignation.

ORDAINED singer Sinéad O’Connor believes the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, should be expelled from the country because of what she calls the contempt displayed by the Vatican to the Murphy Commission on clerical child abuse.

The Pope’s Ambassador to Ireland today said the Vatican was ashamed by the devastating findings of a damning inquiry into clerical sex abuse in Dublin.

Last week the Irish Examiner called for Bishop Donal Murray of Limerick to resign without delay. His prevarication is effectively undermining the positions of other prominent Church figures.

ALL anybody has wanted to hear from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the past week has been sincerity and humility.

Papal Nuncio to Ireland Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto has been appointed to the same post in Australia, the Catholic Church said today.

FORMER Bishop of Galway Dr Eamon Casey, who is facing an allegation in Ireland, was not present at the funeral of retired bishop of the diocese James McLoughlin yesterday.

THOUSANDS of people gathered in Dublin’s Phoenix Park last night for a multi-faith Sunset Remembrance service to mark the Pope’s funeral in Rome.

President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern are due to attend a mass of remembrance at Dublin's Pro-Cathedral this evening for the late Pope John Paul II.

THE Pope’s representative in Burundi, an Irishman, was shot dead in an ambush yesterday.

A number of Catholic bishops have been confronted by an abuse victim outside today's extraordinary general meeting at St Patrick's College in Maynooth.