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  FactCheck: Is the Bishop of Waterford right to say the HPV vaccine is '70% safe'?

  Sep 29th 2017, 6:00 AM 26,790 106

  #GARDASIL
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  Mary McAleese says the Vatican is moving backwards on children's rights

  Sep 13th 2017, 2:02 PM 13,341 43

  #CATHOLIC CHURCH
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  Pope Francis has a black eye after falling in his popemobile

  Sep 11th 2017, 8:49 AM 23,004 29

  #COLOMBIAN TRIP
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  'Ireland is well placed to respond to the needs of migrants and refugees'

  Sep 10th 2017, 8:30 AM 10,746 147

  #OPINION
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  Funerals in Kerry will no longer be allowed to take place on Sundays

  Sep 4th 2017, 1:10 PM 30,229 58

  #SIX DAYS A WEEK
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  Bishops have 'constructive' meeting with Varadkar and ministers

  Aug 31st 2017, 9:29 PM 14,179 99

  #CHURCH AND STATE
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  One year to go before the world's Catholics descend on Dublin

  Aug 20th 2017, 8:00 AM 21,938 111

  #VATICAN
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  Column: 'Is it possible to be Catholic and a feminist?'

  Jul 23rd 2017, 3:00 PM 11,169 105

  #GENDER EQUALITY
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  Concern from Catholics, but gluten-free communion host IS available in Ireland

  Jul 13th 2017, 6:09 AM 14,085 64

  #WAFER OR WINE
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  Archbishop says Church stubbornly reluctant to let go of the control of schools

  Jul 10th 2017, 9:03 AM 19,425 156

  #CHURCH AND STATE
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  Cardinal Pell returns to Australia to face abuse charges

  Jul 10th 2017, 7:59 AM 8,074 0

  #COURT CASE
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  South Dublin council attempting to rezone school grounds so Catholic Church can't sell them

  Jul 5th 2017, 6:00 AM 25,222 59

  #CHURCH VERSUS STATE
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  Galway Christian church leaders line up to condemn mosque attack

  Jun 7th 2017, 10:06 PM 13,783 48

  #SOLIDARITY
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  Netflix's The Keepers highlights harrowing sexual abuse in a 1960s US Catholic school

  Jun 4th 2017, 9:30 PM 39,873 71

  #BALTIMORE
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  Philippine authorities ban hanging rosary beads off car dashboards

  May 28th 2017, 8:45 AM 20,061 41

  #DISTRACTION
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  Mafia clan and Catholic group busted in migrant scandal

  May 15th 2017, 7:45 PM 19,686 44

  #ITALY
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  Vatican celebrates big bang theory to dispel 'science conflict'

  May 9th 2017, 2:38 PM 19,507 150

  #GEORGE LEMAITRE
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  'I’m sorry it’s come to this but I did try to warn you' - Texts between hospital bosses as row deepens

  Apr 25th 2017, 10:15 AM 42,677 165

  #PETER BOYLAN
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  Bishop says new maternity hospital should obey rules of Catholic Church

  Apr 23rd 2017, 2:29 PM 40,397 163

  #SISTERS OF CHARITY
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  Opinion: 'The government won't remove the Church from its authority over social services until we demand it'

  Apr 20th 2017, 6:30 AM 527 64

  #MATERNITY HOSPITAL
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  Vatican confirms Pope Francis to visit Ireland, almost 40 years after John Paul II

  Mar 30th 2017, 5:03 PM 28,870 157

  #IT'S A DATE
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  'They’d put me in a room with nothing to eat and no windows. Then they would cut my hair to the bone'

  Mar 20th 2017, 6:10 AM 134,531 107

  #MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES
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  Two nuns and priest arrested over cover up of baby born to girl allegedly raped by another priest

  Mar 17th 2017, 10:42 AM 52,476 0

  #INDIA
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  Eamonn Casey 'did much good' but revelations about son were 'profoundly upsetting for Church'

  Mar 16th 2017, 3:00 PM 16,209 37

  #HOMILY
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  President Higgins leads wealth of tributes to 'pioneering' bishop Eamonn Casey

  Mar 13th 2017, 10:06 PM 21,483 58

  #CATHOLIC CHURCH
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  Controversial bishop Eamonn Casey has died aged 89

  Mar 13th 2017, 5:05 PM 81,583 181

  #CASEY
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  Pressure mounts on Church to 'pay up' on sexual abuse redress as Taoiseach says 'get on with it'

  Mar 13th 2017, 12:55 PM 13,763 79

  #MONEY DUE
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  Poll: Should the State take over hospitals owned by the Catholic Church?

  Mar 13th 2017, 8:37 AM 25,428 230

  #YOUR SAY
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  Religious groups still owe €1.3 billion for institutional child abuse

  Mar 9th 2017, 2:14 PM 18,968 161

  #RYAN REPORT
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  Catholic bishop: 'We hang our heads in shame' over Tuam mass grave

  Mar 5th 2017, 5:48 PM 33,917 190

  #TUAM BABIES
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  Public asked to lay flowers at graves of Magdalene women today

  Mar 5th 2017, 7:40 AM 13,175 16

  #MARK OF RESPECT
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  The Vatican has cut its deficit by over €13 million

  Mar 4th 2017, 4:47 PM 14,524 85

  #COLLECTION PLATE
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  Abuse survivor Marie Collins resigns from Vatican commission

  Mar 1st 2017, 1:31 PM 12,740 40

  #RESISTANT TO CHANGE
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  Archbishop Martin says Connell 'was the one who finally began to realise the extent of the abuse'

  Feb 24th 2017, 12:05 PM 12,370 48

  #CATHOLIC CHURCH
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  Pope Francis says it's better to be an atheist than a 'hypocritical Catholic'

  Feb 24th 2017, 7:12 AM 33,363 207

  #HYPOCRITES
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  Former Archbishop of Dublin Desmond Connell dies aged 90

  Feb 21st 2017, 9:14 AM 17,918 78

  #CATHOLIC CHURCH
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  'Loads of tender hugs' - Catholic Church releases gift tokens for Valentine's Day

  Feb 10th 2017, 6:15 AM 11,362 35

  #AH BLESS
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  'Shocking and indefensible': 1 in 14 priests in Australia accused of child abuse

  Feb 6th 2017, 7:30 AM 15,473 163

  #HISTORIC CASES
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  Huge Finglas church to close its doors

  Feb 3rd 2017, 9:48 AM 53,910 109

  #FALLING ATTENDANCE
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  'The Church is in a state of utter collapse': Irish priests at odds with Vatican speak out

  Jan 29th 2017, 3:23 PM 43,601 128

  #CATHOLIC CHURCH

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