Poles should do more to maintain Poland’s synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, according to the Polish bishops’ Commission for Dialogue with Judaism. Pointing to how 3.5 million Jews lived in Poland prior to the Holocaust, the bishops said: “We often don’t realise that, in our localities and neighbourhoods, Jews lived, worked and created as our elder…

Michael Fisher The Bishop of Clogher has made a special appeal at a Mass in Co. Monaghan for anyone with information about Columba McVeigh, abducted and killed by the IRA in 1975 and then secretly buried, to come forward. At a Mass in Carrickroe, near Emyvale, Bishop Liam MacDaid urged anyone who might have “even a small shred of evidence” about where…

Elderly members of the Salesian community had to be evacuated in their pyjamas in the early hours last week, when the chapel at the community’s residence in the Dublin suburb of Crumlin was engulfed in flames. The Salesian Provincial Secretary, Fr Pat Egan said the fire alarm went off at around 5.45am on Thursday and…

The Pro-Life Campaign has insisted that The Irish Times has “little or no credibility” when it comes to reporting on abortion after new documents reveal how the paper tried to play down an instance when it published an abortion related story which was found to have no basis in fact. On August 23, 2013 a front-page story…

The Government’s approach to the referendum raises questions about the nature of our democracy writes Greg Daly