A LEADING church figure has indicated that a papal visit to Ireland is now unlikely this year.Pope Benedict XVI would visit Ireland "soon rather than later" and was "actively considering" an invitation from the Catholic Church in Ireland, the Archbishop
HOPES that the Pope will travel to Ireland this year have been raised after Cardinal Sean Brady said the timing is right.The Primate of All Ireland said he is hopeful that the first papal visit for more than 30 years would take place in 2012.Last weekend
Public spending cutbacks are particularly hitting the sick and elderly, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has warned.The Republic's most senior Catholic church leader said the government was allocating less to some of society's most vulnerable at a ti
The issue of our embassy to the Holy See won't go away. Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore now finds himself attacked as "an anti-Catholic bigot" and it has sparked a mini-rebellion among the Fine Gael backbenchers.I'm going to go out on a limb here and sugg
• Those Fine Gael TDs who have been loud in their protestations on the decision last year to close the Irish embassy in the Vatican need to get some backbone.They are worried that they may lose their seats in the next General Election, with traditional C
ARCHBISHOP Charles J Brown is the youngest Papal Nuncio to have been appointed here.The 52-year-old is also the first whose first language is English -- most of his predecessors having been Italian speakers.His appointment is being viewed with optimism b
ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has questioned whether Ireland has learned its lessons from the financial crash and says the Government may be "slavishly following models" by paying down €1.25bn to Anglo Irish Bank bondholders this week.Speaking at the World
TAOISEACH Enda Kenny last night reassured Fine Gael backbenchers that the decision to close down Ireland's Vatican embassy would be reviewed.It is a sign that the Government is preparing to row back on the controversial decision, which has ensured that t
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