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Ireland’s new Vatican ambassador was accredited today, three years after the State closed its embassy.
Pope Francis called the mafia “is the adoration of evil and contempt for common good.”
The new Pope has delivered his first Christmas ‘urbi et orbi’ message.
Francis brushed off years of tradition and formality with a remarkable break in style, sending a message that he will reject many of the trappings enjoyed by the now-retired Benedict XVI.
Cardinals gather for the general congregations today ahead of the start of the conclave to elect the next head of the Catholic Church.
The tweets from the @pontifex Twitter account have been removed, with the account dormant awaiting a new pontiff.
Cardinals will now meet to elect a successor, while the 85-year-old former Joseph Ratzinger will be known as ‘Pope Emeritus’.
The pontiff will depart the Vatican later today to spend the next few months at the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo before he returns to the Vatican permanently to live a life of prayer and academic research.
The 85-year-old enjoys an emotional sendoff, explaining his reasons for retiring and taking a final tour of St Peter’s Square.
Details of Pope Benedict’s life after his reign ends have emerged and include him swapping his trademark red shoes for a brown pair. His Fisherman’s Ring will also be destroyed.
The Pope and Packie Bonner, the Pope with some birds, the Pope with a watch-stealing baby…
In his Ash Wednesday address, the pontiff asked for Catholics to “keep praying” for him.
Enda Kenny clashed with the Catholic Church in the last two years, slamming the “the dysfunction, the disconnection, the elitism that dominates the Vatican today” after the Cloyne report in 2011.
The life and times of the 265th Pope.
Social media is all about debate and dissent, writes Fr Tony Flannery – so perhaps it can teach the Vatican a lesson.
Checking the Mayo team news? Updating his Facebook? Or taking a sneaky snap? Just what was Enda doing as he checked his phone a number of times during the audience with the Pope on Saturday?