The vote on whether to repeal the 8th Amendment of Ireland's constitution, paving the way to change abortion law in Ireland, is set for May 25, and campaigning is taking off.
The number of Protestants going to mass has exceeded the number of Catholics attending services as Catholic mass attendance is on a steep downward trend.
Silenced Irish priest Fr. Tony Flannery has made a final plea with Church authorities to lift the sanctions imposed on him and other clerical colleagues ahead of the Pope's historic visit to Ireland later this year.
In a voluntary agreement in 2009, the Catholic Church in Ireland promised to hand over 18 properties to the state to pay for the costs incurred by the Ryan report investigation into residential institutional child abuse.
Forty years after Pope John Paul skipped Northern Ireland and 20 years since the Good Friday Agreement, in 2018 Francis must make a visit his priority.
A new volunteer-led initiative will scrutinize the way political advertising is used on social media before May’s referendum on the constitutional ban on abortion in Ireland.
