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Tuesday 29 September 2020
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The new advice says bishops “should” report claims – but critics have said it should be mandatory.
The former Irish president warned of the damaging impact the church is having on Ireland younger LGBT community.
Religious services can resume during Phase Three which begins on Monday 29 June.
Churches, mosques and other places of worship have been closed for several weeks.
Church leaders said that masses would be cancelled in response to the public health crisis caused by coronavirus.
Almost 940,000 pupils are enrolled in primary and post-primary schools in Ireland.
Strict new Covid-19 measures have been announced for the two counties – here’s what you need to know.
The reform is part of changes being introduced by the Church today.
The Buffalo bishop has been accused in US media of hiding the names of accused priests
A 2015 review found several institutions had no public appointment or tendering procedure for the employment of chaplains.
The victims were children and adolescents aged between four and 17.
€30 million in State funding has been spent on the site over the last two decades.
The move is part of discussions to address a shortage of priests in the Amazon region.
Abortion will be decriminalised in the North if the collapsed assembly is not restored by 21 October.
Pell is currently serving a six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s.
The US-based group is holding a conference today in Dublin.
The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic drinks.
Thousands are expected to contact the hotline, while face-to-face interviews with victims will be held at a later date.
He said that religious services would no longer be used to “glorify” Dublin drug cartels’ images.
Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, Marriage and Burial are now rites of passage but do we understand their theological foundations, writes Shane Dunphy.
A recent survey shows Catholic schools want preparations for Confirmations and Communions to take place outside the classroom.
The law declares that anyone who has knowledge of abuse is obliged to report it to the Church.
Two sons of a wealthy Sri Lankan spice trader are among the suspected suicide bombers.
He called on the Church to avoid returning to attitudes it had shown in the past.
Benedict has written a 6,000-word essay for Klerusblatt, a German monthly magazine for clergy.
It was claimed earlier this week that pupils would not celebrate Christmas at Educate Together schools.
It has been claimed by one gaelscoil that Irish greetings like dia duit would no longer be allowed.
Ricardo Ezzati, archbishop of Santiago, is the highest-ranking Catholic official in Chile.
Fr Patrick Peyton taught Americans to recite the Rosary from the 1940s onwards.
France’s highest-ranking Catholic official failed to report sex abuse by a priest.
Martin said that some of this anti-Islamic sentiment came from publications “purporting to be of Catholic inspiration”.
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin failed to report the abuse of a child between 2014 and 2015.
The summit heard that the canon law protection of ‘pontifical secret’ had been applied to numerous clerical abuse cases. Bizarrely, it was suggested that this practice should not continue – indicating that it is ongoing. writes Shane Dunphy.
He has now become the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex crimes.
The cardinal was speaking at a landmark Vatican summit on tackling sex abuse in the clergy.
The document details the cases of 85 priests convicted of paedophilia.
It is the first time a cardinal has ever been defrocked for sex abuse.
The couple were blessed by a bishop in front of the saint’s shrine.
The event had to be rescheduled after complaints made to the original venue because of the minister’s role in the Repeal campaign.
ENGLAND HAS INTRODUCED new rules that could see people receive fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to self-isolate.
This means that anyone who has tested positive or has been a close contact of a Covid-19 case and fails to quarantine could receive a hefty penalty.
There have been some calls for a similar system here too, to prevent the spread of the virus and to stop any flouting of rules.
So today we want to know: Should people who fail to self-isolate be fined?
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Leo Varadkar apologises for Dáil comments about priests sinning behind the altar
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin was the target of Varadkar’s comments and he’s now responded to the apology.
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