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.

For the last time, can we please put an end to this nonsense about the Vatican embassy?

THEY wrote from across Ireland but also from America, Australia, China, mainland Europe and Britain. Among them were priests and nuns, abuse victims and counsellors, parents and grandparents, those of religious faith and none.

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.

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

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

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has come under pressure from Cabinet colleagues to summon the Pope’s Irish ambassador over Rome‘s role in the Cloyne scandal.

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.

Papal nuncio Archbishop Guiseppe Leanza has been asked to attend a meeting with the Foreign Affairs minister Micheál Martin at Iveagh house next week.

A FORMER government minister has lambasted the Catholic Church’s attitude to women, as the fallout from the Murphy report continues.

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THE murder of a Nenagh-born Vatican diplomat in Africa will be raised by Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern when he meets the Pope in Rome tomorrow.

The murder of a Nenagh-born Vatican diplomat in Africa will be raised by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern when he meets the Pope and Vatican officials in Rome on Wednesday.

Bishop Martin Drennan is being installed as the new Bishop of Galway at a ceremony in St Mary's Casthedral in the city this afternoon.

THE rebel group accused of murdering Irish Archbishop Michael Courtney in Burundi has given the head of the Catholic Church there one month to leave the country.

THE Taoiseach and Justice minister were among the guests at a special ceremony installing the new bishop of Kildare and Leighlin.