Breda O'Brien: Pope's presumption of bad faith on part of those who attend the Mass is worrying

A trial before the Vatican’s criminal tribunal begins this month, those charged include four former Vatican officials and Cardinal Angelo Becciu

First two marriages of Britain’s first Catholic prime minister not seen as valid by Church

Already under attack from the Catholic right, Pope Francis has now also alienated staunch supporters among Church liberals

Interview: ‘My worst day came early on, when I met the parents of a victim. That shattered me’

Austen Ivereigh has produced an unusual collaboration with Pope Francis

Senior clerics found to have downplayed or dismissed allegations in damaging reports

Idea church cannot live with gay civil unions is unacceptable, Archbishop of Dublin says

Questions arise over origins of shock endorsement of civil unions for gay people

Traditional church teaching considers homosexual acts ‘intrinsically disordered’

Pope Francis hopes deaths may not be ‘tragedy from which we learn nothing’

Fund recipient St Vincent de Paul Society appoints Rose McGowan as president

Organisers ask Taoiseach to allow 500 attend, as was case before restrictions extended

The lord mayor of Cork’s feat of endurance and the drawn-out circumstances of his death magnified the cause of Irish independence in the international arena

Move could jeopardise potential plan by Pope Francis to change rules in Amazon

Ex-pontiff’s new book seen as appeal to Francis amid pressure to change rules on marriage

Mexico-based Legionaries of Christ has a chapter in Leopardstown, Co Dublin

Review: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce go full throttle in a sanitised version of the truth

A male-only priesthood was described by Mary McAleese as ‘codology dressed up as theology’

Fr Bernárd Lynch best known for his work with Aids victims in New York and London