The Vatican publicly unveiled a handful of bone fragments purportedly belonging to St Peter, reviving the scientific debate and tantalising mystery over whether the relics found in a shoe box truly belong to the first pope.

A recent speech by Pope Francis held clear echoes of a centuries-old tradition stressing the need for radical, progressive action, and insights on matters of social justice, writes TP O’Mahony

Pope Benedict XVI has posted his first tweet.

I WATCHED some of the opening ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress on Sunday afternoon.

Our interest in this year’s event is at odds with the pomp and piety of 1932, says Gerard Howlin

The Government’s decision to shut down its embassy to the Holy See is political not religious, writes TP O’Mahony

Fr James Good admires Jennifer Sleeman’s stand on women, but sees no purpose in a Mass boycott, he tells Dan Buckley.

IN the past week we had posthumous pronouncements from both Judge Seán O’Leary and the late US President Gerald Ford.

MANY Catholics think the church has never changed its teaching on many moral issues, and argue that its teachings are “based on a correct understanding of the human according to unchanging natural moral law” (Paul Kokoski, Irish Examiner letters, June 18).