Ireland is facing into a spiritual “famine” because it is running out of priests, a Catholic cleric has said.

An Irish-based organisation which offers support to children born of Catholic clergy around the world has welcomed Vatican Guidelines on the issue which it says were largely unknown up to now.

Latest: The Bishop of Ossory has apologised following comments made a priest in Co Kilkenny who compared gay people to zombies.

A County Limerick priest is warning the public of an email scam doing the rounds in his name.

The Catholic diocese of Waterford and Lismore has said it did not have enough money to pay its priests' wages at Christmas due to a major falloff in the amount of donations collected from parishioners.

A Roman Catholic priest accused of indecently assaulting a young girl over 40 years ago has launched a High Court action aimed at stopping his criminal trial from going ahead.

Gardaí in Laois are investigating after a parish priest died in what's being described as a "freak accident" involving his car.

Priests who die while facing accusations of sexual abuse are being denied a traditional Catholic funeral.

An Irish greyhound has forsaken a sporting career in favour of one of contemplation after being adopted by a priest in an Austrian monastery.

A Cork priest serving on mission in South Sudan has described in chilling detail how a Jesuit friend and colleague was murdered by gunmen in country last week.

A number of men have started studying for the priesthood in Ireland.

Brides who show too much cleavage at their wedding should pay more for their big day, according to Italian priest Fr Cristiano Bobbo.

A parish priest was robbed and threatened with a knife by a woman at his home in Kilkenny last weekend.

Women should have a bigger role in the Catholic Church, according to a finding in a new survey from the Association of Catholic Priests.

A former priest who raped a child he had paid to do his gardening has lost an appeal against his conviction.

The priest officiating at the funeral of a man who was fatally stabbed on the street last week has questioned why people carry knives when they result in so much tragedy.

A video of a French priest slapping a baby across the face during a baptism has caused uproar online.

The ordination of the first priest in the Diocese of Kerry in 11 years has been announced and is to take place in under two weeks’ time in north Kerry.

A priest found two people having sex beneath a statue of the Virgin Mary at a Roman Catholic church in New Jersey, authorities have said.

Girls making their first confession were sexually abused by a priest who afterwards put his hand on their heads and said: “Your sins are forgiven.”

This Holy Thursday, I’ll climb the hill from the pier and head east across the island of Inishbofin.

A gay priest prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner will learn the outcome of an Appeal Court challenge in England over his claim he was discriminated against.

A priest has gone on trial accused of indecently assaulting a boy in a Co Cork school sickbay in the early 1980s.

An organisation that represents the children of priests has said the Vatican will have to directly address the issue after it emerged Pope Francis’s committee of advisers on protecting children is already looking at the rights of children fathered by Roman Catholic priests.

A community plans to honour a defiant former parish priest whose eviction from the parochial house in the late 1800s helped inspire the Land League movement in Cork.

A priest yesterday sounded a warning over the accidental death of Clare teen, Conor Wilmot where he said that Conor “found something on the Internet that went wrong”.

A Catholic priest has been jailed for 17 years for repeatedly sexually abusing a teenage boy when he worked as a teacher in the 1970s.

Police in Georgia have detained a high-profile priest who is suspected of plotting to poison a senior cleric, prosecutors said.

Silenced priest Fr Tony Flannery defied Vatican orders yesterday by saying Mass for the first time in five years.

Trustees at the seminary in Maynooth are to conduct a review into the use by trainee priests of the internet and social media as part of efforts to limit “any sort of behaviour or attitude which contradicts the teaching and example of Jesus Christ” writes Noel Baker.

An elderly French priest murdered a week ago by two extremists tried to push away his attackers with his feet, saying “go away, Satan”, the archbishop of Rouen has told his funeral Mass.

The sister of a French priest murdered by extremists has appealed at his funeral for all faiths to work together for peace.

The Archdiocese of Dublin has confirmed that it will not be sending its trainee priests to the National Seminary in Maynooth.

Muslims and Christians have prayed together at a mosque in the French town where an elderly priest was killed this week, with one imam calling the extremists non-Muslims who are "not part of civilisation" or "humanity".