Syria’s bishops have visited Homs many times since civil war began four years ago

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Four Irish families travelled to the UN in Geneva to join with other families, medical experts and policymakers at a conference at the United Nations in Geneva to launch a global campaign aiming to end the use of the term 'incompatible with life' and to seek better care for families whose children are diagnosed with…

Retired Bishop Edward Daly received the Freedom of Derry this week, in recognition of his contribution to the city over the past five decades. Bishop Daly received the honour alongside retired Church of Ireland Bishop James Mehaffey from Derry City Council in the Guildhall on Tuesday evening.   A motion, proposed by SDLP Councillor John…

Six Dominican friars have been ordained deacons by Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, in a ceremony that has bucked the trend of recent decades. The Irish Dominicans’ Prior Provincial, Fr Gregory Carroll confirmed that this was the largest ordination of deacons since 1972 and that the new deacons all entered the order after a specially designated…

A highly-acclaimed expert on Pope Francis has dismissed claims by former President Mary McAleese that Pope Francis carries a “residual element of misogyny” that blinds him to the risks of insufficiently empowering women in the Church. Mrs McAleese’s comments came in RTÉ’s Pope Francis, A Sinner, a Would You Believe? special this week in which…

Leading constitutional experts have supported journalist Bruce Arnold’s call for the coming referendums on marriage and the presidency to be postponed. Speaking on RTĖ’s Morning Ireland, Mr Arnold said it is “intemperate and overzealous” of the Government to push ahead with the referendums when the Supreme Court has not yet ruled in the Jordan case…

The head of the Holy See’s peace council has praised the Church in Northern Ireland for its work to bring peace to the North. Speaking at Belfast’s annual St Brigid’s lecture, Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said after many years in which “images of violent conflict have flashed…