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The housing crisis is solvable — if we just got on with it

If all the local authorities were collecting €250,000 per year from levies, they’d be in a much better position to effectively implement programmes, writes Alan O'Neill

<p>The group has held masses in Derry, where local bishop Donal McKeown, in a bulletin sent to all churches this weekend, warned congregations: "The priests of SSPX Resistance Ireland are not in full communion with the Catholic Church and do not accept the full teaching authority of the Church. Picture: Andy Gibson</p>

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Gardaí probe safeguarding issues following complaint about fundamentalist Catholic group

<p>Diarmaid MacCulloch made tabloid headlines in the 80s as the first openly gay man to apply to be ordained as an Anglican vicar.</p>

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Book review: Oxford professor challenges Christianity's model of a 'male and female' binary system

The Mick Clifford Podcast: Practicing but not preaching with Ian Kilroy

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The Mick Clifford Podcast: Practicing but not preaching with Ian Kilroy

Kerry diocese makes history as lay people step up amid growing priest shortage

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Kerry diocese makes history as lay people step up amid growing priest shortage

Meeting with Jewish leaders in US in jeopardy after Taoiseach accused of antisemitism

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Meeting with Jewish leaders in US in jeopardy after Taoiseach accused of antisemitism

Ramadan in Ireland: ‘Celebrating together makes us all feel closer to home’

S Ramadan in Ireland: ‘Celebrating together makes us all feel closer to home’

Faith, and in particular the holy month of Ramadan, is an integral part of connecting Muslims with their identity, writes Colin Sheridan

Sat, 08 Mar, 2025

Hundreds of teens attend first-of-its-kind music and faith-based concert in Cork City

Hundreds of teens attend first-of-its-kind music and faith-based concert in Cork City

Bishop Fintan Gavin hailed the success of the Maranatha 2025 event in Cork City Hall which was attended by 500 students from 20 secondary schools

Fri, 07 Mar, 2025

Watch: UCC students tell us what they plan on giving up for Lent

Watch: UCC students tell us what they plan on giving up for Lent

One student said they planned on fasting every Friday

Thu, 06 Mar, 2025

Child poverty strategy

Primary schools no longer exclude children based on religion, review confirms

A review confirms Irish primary schools no longer use religion as an admission criterion, ensuring a fairer system for all

Thu, 06 Mar, 2025

Pope Francis Celebrates Immaculate Conception at Spanish Steps

ieExplains: When a pope is ill or can’t fulfill his duties, who steps in?

Who else helps lead the Holy See? Daniel Speed Thompson, a theologian at the University of Dayton, offers some insight into Vatican City.

Wed, 05 Mar, 2025

Sarah Harte: At the risk of sounding like a character from Father Ted, hands off our Angelus

Sarah Harte: At the risk of sounding like a character from Father Ted, hands off our Angelus

Progress should seek to embrace our different traditions rather than trying to make everyone the same

Wed, 26 Feb, 2025

Bishop Willie Walsh 'was a radical in the true sense of the word'

Bishop Willie Walsh 'was a radical in the true sense of the word'

'This sometimes ruffled feathers, was occasionally misunderstood, upset a few, and others saw it as an effort to overturn hard earned orthodoxy,' the bishop's funeral Mass heard

Mon, 24 Feb, 2025

Pope Francis critical after condition worsens, Vatican says

Pope Francis critical after condition worsens, Vatican says

Pope Francis is in a critical condition after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis, the Vatican said

Sat, 22 Feb, 2025

Bishop Willie Walsh provided leadership and a humane response in the church's darkest hour

Bishop Willie Walsh provided leadership and a humane response in the church's darkest hour

Bishop Willie Walsh, a compassionate leader who championed truth and reconciliation, has died at the age of 90

Sat, 22 Feb, 2025

Former Bishop of Killaloe Willie Walsh dies aged 90

Former Bishop of Killaloe Willie Walsh dies aged 90

Bishop Walsh died at his home in Ennis, Co Clare, on Tuesday night having recently celebrated his 90th birthday

Thu, 20 Feb, 2025

TP O’Mahony: Church's relationship with democracy has always been inconsistent

TP O’Mahony: Church's relationship with democracy has always been inconsistent

Pope Francis finds himself defending democracy against JD Vance’s unique brand of American Catholicism — a novel role for an absolute monarch

Wed, 19 Feb, 2025

Heavens above: How Dublin Airport’s chaplain helps grieving families and fearful flyers

Heavens above: How Dublin Airport’s chaplain helps grieving families and fearful flyers

Dublin Airport’s chaplain, Fr Justin Obijuru, offers solace to grieving families and anxious travelers, continuing a tradition of compassion

Wed, 19 Feb, 2025

Parishes across Ireland to mark canonisation of 'the patron saint of PlayStation' in April

Parishes across Ireland to mark canonisation of 'the patron saint of PlayStation' in April

Carlo Acutis was known for his good deeds as well as his avid interest in video games which he used to create a website documenting eucharistic miracles

Mon, 17 Feb, 2025

Gobnaits bowled over as they join forces for festival celebrating namesake

Gobnaits bowled over as they join forces for festival celebrating namesake

Ballyvourney Co Cork welcomed dozens of women and girls named Gobnait ahead of the saint's feast day

Sun, 09 Feb, 2025

Mount Melleray closure: 'This isn't the final goodbye, the monks hope to return'

Mount Melleray closure: 'This isn't the final goodbye, the monks hope to return'

The closure comes almost two centuries after the abbey was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to Ireland from the Cistercian monastery in Melleray in France

Mon, 27 Jan, 2025

Gareth O'Callaghan: I’m so glad I took a chance to get away from this repressed country

S Gareth O'Callaghan: I’m so glad I took a chance to get away from this repressed country

Many of us made the decision to leave Ireland because we didn’t like being told how to live, what to believe, and what we could or couldn’t do or be

Sat, 25 Jan, 2025

Donald Trump

Bishop calls on Trump to ‘have mercy’ on migrants and LGBTQ+ people

Right Rev Mariann Budde’s appeal amounts to bold public criticism and prompts frosty response from US president

Wed, 22 Jan, 2025

Mount Melleray Abbey to close after almost 200 years with a final Mass

Mount Melleray Abbey to close after almost 200 years with a final Mass

Several pilgrims are expected to visit the site throughout the week, with the order saying that there have been many enquiries regarding times of Masses and other ceremonies

Tue, 21 Jan, 2025

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Little Sisters of the Poor to cease running Dublin nursing home

Catholic order of nuns told families on Wednesday of their 'heartbreaking' decision to withdraw from the Sacred Heart Residence in Raheny

Thu, 16 Jan, 2025

‘Abuse, corruption, dark dealings’: Pope Benedict handed scandal documents to Francis

‘Abuse, corruption, dark dealings’: Pope Benedict handed scandal documents to Francis

Pope Francis says in his autobiography he received a ‘large white box’ relating to ‘difficult and painful situations’

Tue, 14 Jan, 2025

'It looks like I’ll live to over 100:' Ireland's oldest bell-ringer gets set to ring up his 90th

'It looks like I’ll live to over 100:' Ireland's oldest bell-ringer gets set to ring up his 90th

As he has done for seven decades, Richard de Courcy will once again brave the 50 steps up to the belfry on his 90th birthday

Mon, 13 Jan, 2025

Mick Clifford: Difficult to see how the next Government will make us any better off

S Mick Clifford: Difficult to see how the next Government will make us any better off

Influence of independents will be seen in what will not get done — rather than creating positive change

Sun, 05 Jan, 2025

1985 revisited: Ballinspittle's moving statue — ‘We weren’t expecting what we saw’

1985 revisited: Ballinspittle's moving statue — ‘We weren’t expecting what we saw’

Ellie O’Byrne revisits one of county Cork’s strangest phenomena: a statue of the Virgin Mary that, in 1985, drew enormous crowds because witnesses believed they had seen it moving

Sat, 04 Jan, 2025

Jennifer Horgan: Focusing on forgiveness would make our world a better place

Jennifer Horgan: Focusing on forgiveness would make our world a better place

In every aspect of our lives and in how we run society, cutting back on blame and focusing on forgiveness and rehabilitation would make our world better

Fri, 03 Jan, 2025

State Papers: 80 years ago, Irish Jews rebuffed claim that Ireland was antisemitic

State Papers: 80 years ago, Irish Jews rebuffed claim that Ireland was antisemitic

In 1944, foreshadowing events of 2024, the Jewish Representative Council of Éire described as 'false, irresponsible, and mischievous' a suggestion that Ireland was antisemitic

Mon, 30 Dec, 2024

'There was nobody else for us': Cork couple celebrates 70 years of marriage

'There was nobody else for us': Cork couple celebrates 70 years of marriage

Billy and Maureen Lehane celebrated their platinum anniversary with a Mass in the church where they were wed in 1954

Sun, 08 Dec, 2024

'Mary Regan got her wish: She came home and is back with her people'

'Mary Regan got her wish: She came home and is back with her people'

Woman whose funeral in Carlow was attended by hundreds people after funeral director's appeal is laid to rest in her native Adrigole in West Cork

Wed, 04 Dec, 2024

26/7/2014. Mountjoy Prisons

Closure of Mountjoy Prison chapel a suppression of prisoners' religious rights, says bishop

Bishop Martin Hayes said: 'As the holy season of Advent leading up to Christmas begins this Sunday, the timing of this decision is particularly poignant.'

Wed, 27 Nov, 2024

Jennifer Horgan: We ignore ‘small things’ causing psychological harm in schools

S Jennifer Horgan: We ignore ‘small things’ causing psychological harm in schools

What we must focus on today is the removal of faith formation from school hours. Remove that, and schools come a lot closer to being egalitarian.

Fri, 15 Nov, 2024

Small Things Like These

Sarah Harte: The small things that went ignored were our biggest issues in the past

As 'Leathered' and 'Small Things like These' demonstrate, so much of what was visited on Ireland's children in the past has repercussions in the present, writes Sarah Harte

Wed, 06 Nov, 2024

Tour of St Bernadette's relics 'exceeds expectations' of clergy across the country

Tour of St Bernadette's relics 'exceeds expectations' of clergy across the country

During the two-month visit, the relics were taken to Ireland’s own Marian shrine in Knock, where hundreds of pilgrims attended Masses in the church on the site of the apparition of Mary in 1879

Tue, 05 Nov, 2024

Large crowds and a 'minor miracle' greet the relics of St Bernadette as they arrive in Cork

Large crowds and a 'minor miracle' greet the relics of St Bernadette as they arrive in Cork

Irish Catholics are devoted to St Bernadette, with generations of women named for her. Now a pilgrimage of her relics nears its end, having arrived in Cork before moving on to Clonakilty

Wed, 30 Oct, 2024

Alfred Smith Dinner

Gareth O'Callaghan: Catholics and Republicans slowly becoming joined at the hip

The historic Al Smith black tie dinner is an event held annually at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to raise funds for Catholic children’s charities in the New York archdiocese

Sat, 26 Oct, 2024

TP O'Mahony: Will the Catholic Church ever have a female Pope?

TP O'Mahony: Will the Catholic Church ever have a female Pope?

Churches across the Western world are growing more empty and vocations have all but dried up as a question looms ever more urgently: ‘What place for women in the Church?’

Thu, 24 Oct, 2024

Cork to host relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes for two days at the end of the month

Cork to host relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes for two days at the end of the month

A shrine to St Bernadette at Lourdes attracts huge numbers of pilgrims every year

Mon, 21 Oct, 2024

A crucifix on a book against the background of a chalkboard

Colm O'Connor: Religion classes are an issue of human rights, not school management

Thousands of schools deny the religious rights of parents and students on a daily basis

Sun, 20 Oct, 2024

FILE PHOTO Minister for Children Roderick O'Gorman is under pressure, after the Dail last night voted to pass a bill which has r

Clodagh Finn: Protect and release our archived personal histories

New legislation makes it a criminal offence to destroy, alter or remove records of survivors of institutional abuse. It also focuses on the importance of such documents — and the need to preserve them

Sat, 19 Oct, 2024

Taoiseach visit to Washington DC

Taoiseach rejects 'absurd' claim US trip is waste of taxpayers' money

Simon Harris also defends decision to deploy his politically-appointed adviser into the Oval Office in Washington to take social media footage

Fri, 11 Oct, 2024

Pope Benedict XVI Celebrates Mass At Nationals Stadium

S Gareth O'Callaghan: Priests are having affairs — is it really such a shocking fact?

I have never seen any sense in the vow of celibacy. It has always struck me as biologically and emotionally unnatural. So why won’t the Catholic Church allow its priests to marry?

Sun, 06 Oct, 2024

'Romeo and Juliet': Vatican bank reportedly fires couple who flouted staff marriage ban

'Romeo and Juliet': Vatican bank reportedly fires couple who flouted staff marriage ban

Newlyweds nicknamed ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Italian media had both refused to resign so other could keep job

Wed, 02 Oct, 2024

Sarah Harte: The Catholic Church can still act as a lifeboat to the disenchanted

Sarah Harte: The Catholic Church can still act as a lifeboat to the disenchanted

The international image of the Roman Catholic Church remains one of a powerful, authoritarian, conservative, patriarchal, wealthy, and corrupt organisation that has presided over systematic sexual abuse, covered it up and sought to avoid paying for redress.

Wed, 02 Oct, 2024

Cabinet meeting

Decision to drop hate speech legislation a 'missed opportunity'

Move raises important concerns for minorities and minoritised groups in the country, warns race relations consultant

Tue, 01 Oct, 2024

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough

Irish Examiner view: The Disappeared — What lies beneath must be brought into the light

Work is accelerating to create the first global open-source mass-graves map

Sat, 21 Sep, 2024

Donald Trump,Elon Musk

S Jennifer Horgan: Masters of misdirection Trump and Musk are laughing at our stupidity

We are blinded by memes and not facing the harsh reality: a convicted felon is going for re-election who will try to succeed by any means

Fri, 20 Sep, 2024