A row has erupted between two senior Irish Catholic church leaders over the treatment of those who support the new abortion legislation.

The National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSCCCI) has published audits of several dioceses and states that the now retired bishop of Clogher, Joseph Duffy, repeatedly missed opportunities to prevent clergy from abusing children.

Seven out of ten Catholics in the U.S. believe the next pope should let priests marry, allow women to become priests, and allow birth control.

The new Bishop of Cloyne has vowed to bring about reconciliation in one of the dioceses worst hit by clerical sex abuse scandals.

Ireland’s Catholic Bishops have been accused of hating women by a leading female Labour Party Senator.

Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has described the new bishop of Camden, Bishop Denis Sullivan, as one of the “finest bishops” he knows.

In an end of the year interview, Cork Bishop John Buckley explained how Church doctrines are meant to serve as ideals and not necessarily standards of membership. Those who do not follow the ideals are still encouraged to come attend Mass.

In a strongly worded statement Irish bishops have warned that legislating for abortion would lead to "the direct and intentional killing of unborn children.”

The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference have rejected the findings of an Irish government report on abortion and stated that abortion is "gravely immoral.”

Four bishops have taken part in street protests against abortion outside the Irish parliamentary buildings in Dublin.

Rev Canon William Crean, a parish priest in Cahersiveen, has been named as a new bishop for the scandal plagued diocese of Cloyne, County Cork, where the previous bishop for years ignored his church's own rules requiring priests suspected of sex abuse to be reported to police.

A US Bishop has stripped an Arizona hospital of its Catholic affiliation after medics saved the life of a mother by terminating her pregnancy.

The Irish Catholic Bishops have come out with a major statement on the death of Savita Halappanavar.
The statement reads:

President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan has announced that the Church will not comply with Barack Obama’s administration's requirement, that most employers should supply health insurance, including birth control.

Bishop John Kirby of Clonfert in Ireland has stepped down from his role as chairman of Trócaire following a report that he “inappropriately” handled matters of child abuse within his diocese.

In a move that has caused a firestorm of controversy in both the press and the pews, a number of Catholic bishops are making blunt appeals to mass-goers to vote for Mitt Romney and the Republican Party on Election Day over President Obama.

A controversial Illinois Catholic bishop, who compared Obama to Hitler earlier this year, has ordered an anti-Obama letter to be read from the pulpit during mass this coming weekend.