2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (732+ words) Dublin-based priest Fr François Laisney is not perturbed by the Vatican announcement on Thursday that he and other clergy of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX) had excommunicated themselves the previous day. On Wednesday, at their headquarters at…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (504+ words) Members of a breakaway Catholic group excommunicated over the ordination of four bishops were unrepentant on Thursday, ‌accusing the Church of straying from the true faith and saying Pope Leo had failed to hear their concerns. At their seminary in…...

3+ mon, 4+ hour ago   (639+ words) The recent Irish Catholic bishops’ document, Turning the Tide, has been the subject of extensive coverage, particularly regarding the finding that religious practice is significantly higher in Northern Ireland than in the Republic. The report draws extensively on the European…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (578+ words) Pope Leo has urged political leaders to seek unity, rather than divide their populations for political gain, and said they must fight for peace, in the opening speech of his tour in Spain. The pope has made the marginalised a…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (307+ words) More than a million people filled the streets of ‌Madrid and one of its main squares on Sunday morning to catch a glimpse of Pope Leo as ​he made his way to an open-air Mass in what was expected to…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (575+ words) “Is é Dia is fearr. Is é Dia is fearr (God is great. God is great),” began Shayk Umar al-Qadri at the Eid al-Adha 2026 prayer and celebrations in Croke Park on Wednesday morning. Before him, sitting on the vast pitch,…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (826+ words) Pope Leo XIV has called for artificial intelligence to be designed to achieve the common good and welfare of mankind in his first major work as pontiff, entitled Magnificent Humanity (Magnifica Humanitas). “Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (365+ words) Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he is restoring access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after police prevented a Catholic leader from holding Mass on Palm Sunday, prompting international backlash. Israeli authorities cited concern for the…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (483+ words) The decision by a Spanish Catholic association to continue excluding women from its Easter processions has reopened a debate about female involvement in such events and could lead to it being sanctioned by the central government. Every Easter across Spain…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (498+ words) Ireland is in the “middle range” of religious countries in Europe, according to a new report published by the Catholic bishops. The country with the highest proportion of people with no religion was the Netherlands, at more than 70 per cent,…...