| Dublin divided | For myself, I am an optimist | Martin Mansergh now opposes conscience clause | Catholic schools `respond to the needs of parents’ | Pope Benedict’s backing of `new media’ earns praise | `Thieves undeterred by locks’ | Dublin priests buoyed by parish support | Pro Life Campaign rejects abortion poll | Pope hosts talks ahead of meeting with Irish | People urged to make Europe work for them |

| Pope calls bishops to Vatican summit | Why Cardinal Connell owes us an explanation | Msgr Stenson refuses to resign | Prayers offering comfort to Haiti | Nun to cast her Oscar vote | Breaking bread together | Suicide is devastating effect of rudderless young people | Young Scientist winner inspired by missions | R na G cuts Mass broadcasts | Orders `complying with HSE audit’ – CORI |

| Archbishops unite in free Gospel promo | Moving on from the hurt of the past | Bishops Conference is `fractured’ on approach | Callers reject name-change for Dublin’s Ryan Park | Will an Irish priest be next calendar pin-up | `Snow’ shortage of community spirit | St Mel’s fire was not arson | Two `mini miracles’ in one week | Will truth win out? | `Irish Church can renew’ |

|Nuns `praying our hearts out’ for Brian Lenihan | When talking to Joe just doesn’t cut it | Defer Eucharistic Congress – Oliver Maloney | Will Braveheart star rebuild St Mel’s? | Magician denies destroying Bible | Vatican gives the nod for Simpsons’ anniversary | `New poor’ seek help from all Irish charities | Church needs `change of heart’ to survive | Catholic Schools’ week to celebrate heritage | Decade-high in pastoral murders in 2009 |

| Catholics weather storms for Christmas Masses | When did the bad days end? | FG back crucifixes in public places | Newstalk apologises for `hostile questioning’ | Cardinal Cahal Daly `seriously ill’ | Environmentalism is moral issue – Pope | Belfast supports Bethlehem | Missing children report delay is criticised | We will rebuild, Bishop vows |Facing death with a positive attitude |

|Happiness is recognising God’s love – Pope Benedict | Where now for the Church | Welcome for Mass card ruling | Church celebrates reopening | Chaplains celebrate Christmas with troops on duty overseas | New Shroud find adds to mystery | €3m put aside for children’s rights referendum | The promises of Christmas | NI exempted from new GB Equality Bill | NI pro-life group welcomes latest ruling on abortion guidelines |

| Abuse of Church power is key to crisis – Radcliffe | Accountability from Vatican downwards | Donegal priest urges caution after death of young garda | Cardinal Brady saddened by Kiltegan’s murder | PLC criticises embryo decision | Bishops to be briefed on Vatican meeting | Mixed reaction from priests at Dublin meeting | Fr Twomey repeats call for resignations | Belfast priest publishes book on St Patrick relic |Christmas – a time for reflection |

| Papal Nuncio promises strong Vatican action | Dublin Archdiocese receives several defection requests | Charlie keeps secrets to himself | Fr Michael thankful for public’s support | Knock `visions’ have fizzled out | Ordinations mark new beginning | Pioneers urge moderation this Christmas season | Composers called to contribute to new Roman Missal |Down and Connor’s oldest church re-opens | Prayers for climate change negotiators |

| Faith shall endure | Faith and Hope for Christians | Government urged to avoid funding cuts on World Aids Day | Catholics call for Church to repent | Priest describes Bishop Murray position as `untenable’ | Nuclear family `gone in 20 years’ | Young Catholics meet for Christmas retreat | Northern High Court rules against abortion guidelines | Churches, religious buildings are hit by nationwide floods | Anti-Catholicism rears its ugly head again | Looking at management in the Catholic Church |
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| SVP spends €1m per week helping struggling families | Christian hope is not index-linked | Congregations named in Ryan Report finalising fresh compensation offers | Poll finds people seek solace in spouse, friends and Church | Presentations launch new lay Trust for schools | Children in Crossfire launch Advent campaign in Derry | International gift drive underway | EU bishops welcome freedom move | St Patrick’s Community to direct Letterkenny Mission | Reclaim the Christmas story
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| Irish bishops ask parishes to go green | `Blaming only religious for abuse is a serious injustice’ | Courageous discussion of celibacy needed says Bishop Walsh| Schools share ideas to help overcome special needs cuts | Bishop Smith visits projects in Burma | Psalm singers come to Belfast | Govt to publish compensation review findings | Mayo people of the Year | NI to host alcohol and drugs conference | Support grows for religious freedom amendment |

| Dublin report `good for the Church’ – Bishop Willie Walsh | Congregations `delivering on commitments’ | `Visionaries’ suffer solar burn eye damage | Lorraine Keane to visit Africa | President opens Fatima neighbourhood centre | Families urged to heed new shock statistics on suicide | New religious advertising code | Campaigners call for NI child abuse inquiry | Pro-life group holds `Vigil for Life’ outside Belfast High Court | Death of Fr Kondor |

| Knock `visions’ have no Church support | Challenges for a Church built on ambiguous awe | `Remarkable’ strides in child protection | IC columnist ennobled in Britain | Pre-signed Mass cards being withdrawn | Senator may sue `Sindo’ | Womens’ council opposes abortion amendment | Appeal for Home Share families | Growing concern in FF over some aspects of civil unions | Don’t target aid any further – Trocaire |

| Freed Sharon prays for kidnapped missionary | Perspective for priests | Call to debate Catholic education future | Pre-signed Mass cards on sale against priest’s wishes | Massive crowds at Dundalk novena | Don’t manipulate Church to oppose EU – Pope | Knights help students to take a `look at life’ | NI minister criticised for Catholic stance | Trafficked women in legal limbo | A bold move forward |

| Trinity College to offer Catholic theology degrees | Irish priests unfairly targeted by tax | Legitimacy of pre-signed Mass cards questioned | EU must respect religious view – Gay Mitchell | A parish celebrates | A tale of two colleges | A mission to feed the poor | Fixing a broken culture | New Programme for Government | A politically correct wishlist | Vatican paper criticises Obama award |

| Send aid, says Irish priest | Not afraid to be at the heart of Europe | Suicide must be met with compassion | Earthquake destruction | Scientist "recreates" Turin Shroud | Dublin-based clairvoyant predicts Knock apparition | Donegal "No-vote" pro-life | Protestant schools get Catholic support | Don't cut schools - Cardinal | New faith awards |

| Cleansed Church will be more humble – Cardinal | Recognising the religious | Church moves against illicit bishop | Redemptorist hits out at `holier-than-thous’ | Wexford recalls Senator Ted Kennedy | Mass card bishop not contactable | Irish Missionaries appeal for GOAL kidnap victims | `God and war’ debate sparks studio row | Polish priests to help Irish diocese | Mount Melleray yet to elect an abbot |

| Rural Ireland will be devastated – priest | Stepping up to argue with secularism | Pope announces theme for Dublin Eucharistic Congress | `We have at times inherited and preached a false God’ – Archbishop | Bono to meet Benedict | Record high for ACCORD cash services | UK Christians face censure | Tenors for Wexford | Cancer is a lesson in humility | Coir launches tirade on Church |

| Europe closing door on poor – Jesuit General | Lisbon will not affect abortion - legal expert | Pilgrims overstay their welcome | Taoiseach renews pro-life commitment | IMU appeal on aid cuts | Church warns foreign bishops on Mass cards | Grandparents urged to pass on the Faith | John McCormack exhibition opens | Dublin report for High Court next month | St Therese arrives in Britain |

| EU head: `Lisbon Treaty cannot affect abortion’ | Does God change the weather? | Irish priest appointed as NGO head | Coir criticised by religious | Humans `hard-wired’ for belief | Queen of Scots last letter on display | New social justice group is formed | Report reveals more than 100 tax breaks |Volunteering numbers up | Missionaries/charities protest aid cutbacks |

| Ireland has become missionary territory | Pope not `undoing Vatican II’ | Finucane to discuss God and hate in new RTE show | 2,000 pilgrims gear up for Lourdes pilgrimage | Dodgy Mass cards are still on sale | Irish priest was present at Ted Kennedy’s bedside | C of I backs cardinal on same-sex marriage | Mary Immaculate project assists disadvantaged Limerick schools | Criminalise the purchase of sex – Coveney | Feast day for Blessed Teresa |

| Cuts force Trocaire pull out | To whom else will we go? | Jesuits stop Coir using its Caravaggio image | Ireland should be proud of its overseas work | Dominicans get bumper intake | Tribute to the peacemakers | St John of God leave Newry after 104 years | Less students choose theology | CORI head seeks our forgiveness | Church speaks out on Lockerbie release |

| Faith Alive | Were the religious who stayed the real heroes? | Free festival donations cover costs | Ceili Mor in an African slum | Priests get new photo ID cards | Recession boosts family meals | Bishop warns against gay marriage move | Theologians gather for carbon-neutral conference | Generations living together face increased pressure | Derry needs babies called Columba |

| Missionary report to aid Nigerian mother’s case | Thousands expected to attend annual Knock Novena | Farming nuns could fall foul of Bord Snip | Cardinal Brady pays tribute to lay supporters | Turkey rejects church for Tarsus | Married deacons within 3 years | Community schools expect Catholic defections | High Court date for the Dublin Report | Lough Derg steps back in time | `Don’t exclude newcomers from peace process’ |

| Bishop defends religious | Tributes paid to founder of Trocaire | Rathkeale stump creates bidding war | Pope to release Christmas album | Eucharistic Congress logo sought | Record high number of lay missionaries defies trend | Charities launch new campaign against cuts | SVP Cork scheme battles moneylenders | Care homes – don’t overstate the `abuse’ label | Amnesty `betraying deepest principles’ |

|Ryan Report action plan just ‘crocodile tears’ – Fr McVerry| Irish priest re-appointed to key Vatican committee| Irish pilgrims not put off by Medjugorje defrocking | Shroud of Turin writing revealed by scientist |One in four married couples in Ireland have separated | Dublin sisters defy vocations downturn | Bishop criticises ‘soap opera’ politics and ‘phoney Messiahs’ | Show will go on in raided church | Christian nurses criticise assisted suicide
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| Dublin gets ready for `traumatic’ abuse report | Bishops agree strategy on spread of swine flu | 651 industrial school students trace their families | FAI dismisses FIFA ban on prayers | Rev. Tenors sing a sell-out concert | Get us to the Pope on time | Miss `C’ did not know what an abortion was’ | Friars move to Derry | CURA targets young post natal parents | NI school move further delayed |

| We must stand up for our faith – Cardinal Pell | Stump apparition is just part of the `silly season’ | Lay involvement is essential – bishop | Church allotments a real growing success | Virgin Mary has inspired me: Bono | New Euro head recalls JP II | Priest plays down NI sectarian violence | Hopes for end to Drumcree dispute | Vatican approves of Harry Potter movie | Charities wary of G8 promises |

| Pope calls for new world order | Vatican hit by economic downturn | Clergy warned police of NI racist attacks | Christian aid agencies continue work in Darfur | `Don’t die’ under Ryan – US nuns tell their Irish counterparts | Ireland leads way against pro-abortion UN motion | New US ambassador is a prominent Catholic | Joy at Newman beatification | McNamara’s remorse over Vietnam War | No school contact from Dr Martin |

| Justice at last | Review of patronage plan of new schools | Archdiocese called to evangelise | Dawkins launches atheist summer camp | Ombudsman tells religious to end reliance on lawyers | Pope’s G8 plea for poor | Standing up for our culture | What’s so secret about Opus Dei? | A world based on the value of fairness | Gay Partnerships Bill a radical attack on marriage |

| Euthanasia clinic reveals Irish deaths | Lisbon II is not `moral compromise’ _ Quinn | Nationality is a human right _ Archbishop Martin | Priest assaulted during riot| Regulator to decide on religious ads | Cloyne inquiry in `early stages’ | Concern that Irishmen are opting for new religious life | NI considers Ryan Report | Weekly Latin Mass to be held in Kilkenny City | HSE criticised over `grossly insensitive’ abortion statement |

| Public not angry at ordinary priests | Membership of `secretive religious’ organisations could be registered | More take religion at Leaving Cert level | Kylie Minogue considers Catholicism | Lions team recruits Irish priest | Church willing to hand over schools |FG/FF back Church-run schools against post-Report criticism | This was torture _ pure and simple | Religious orders will be subject to State review | Vatican treasure trove uncovered |

| Pope takes control of Irish abuse crisis | The corruption of the best is the worst | Three Priests `outraged’ by Ryan Report findings | Irish missionaries on frontline in Pakistan | Filming starts on life of Opus Dei founder | Irish missionary figures decline | Dublin report faces yet further delays | Mannix Flynn elected | Reduce emissions by 40% - Trocaire | Hospital church in development row |

| We got it wrong: CORI | Call for Church to leave schools `opportunistic’: bishop | Slight rise in World’s Catholic population | Bishop Duffy supports confirmation regulations | Incidence of abuse varied a lot from school to school | Record numbers at Clonfert devotions | All-party agreement on Ryan debate motion | How to fill the church pews |Invoking Holocaust can be insulting | Begin again . . . a response to the Ryan Report

| Time to face evil of abuse and ask `why?’ | Greatest blot on 20th century Ireland is the abuse of children | `Dig deep’ for Eucharistic Congress | Henry VIII annulment letter restored | Spiritans celebrate 150 years in Ireland | Govt has ‘no plans’ to reduce Vatican embassy | Thousands visit floating faith ship | Soft information law faces delay | CORI rejects re-opening of redress deal for survivors | Christian Brothers make monetary amends |

| Call for National Day of Repentance | Presentation Sisters keep schools open despite violence | Sign of Peace suspended in NI over swine flu case | Pilgrimage defies recession slump | High crosses in trouble | Vatican announces indulgences | Israel considers honour for Irish hero priest | Sen. Mullen defends his voting record | Kilmore issues child protection newsletter | Future of Women’s Forum still remains undecided |

| Pope Benedict: Religions must now unite for peace | NGOs axe 30 Irish staff | Charities reliance on State funding should end _ Eddie Hobbs | Ireland needs Europe: Dr Martin | Synod makes ecumenical history | IICC office extends to the Republic | People flock to Mayo `apparition’ house | Blasphemy law threatens anti-cult campaigners | Schools axe talks on cults | Religious leaders criticise aid cuts |

| I’ll see my May in Heaven – Keating | Maynooth open day: great success | Survey: only 1 in 20 priests is replaced | Justice Dept will not delay Dublin Report | CofI synod vote on anti-Catholic text | SVP appeal on Communion spend | Church will see this film off as well! | FG Euro group adopts pro-life stance | `Constitution requires blasphemy law’ | Chaplains concerned by jobs embargo |

| `Savage’ cuts to cost Catholic schools millions | Education cuts are counter-productive: CPSMA tells Minister | `Cardinal here – send advice – soon on Twitter’ | Pope hails religious teaching | We are nothing without God: Medjugorje visionary | NI Troubles will not return - peace priest | `Breener’ honoured at Punchestown | Anti-Semitism is `inexcusable’ – Bishop Donal Murray | Fr Peyton statue unveiled |Proposed EU law set to threaten religious s
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|Public finance crisis may scupper gay union status | Archbishop Martin tipped for top Vatican justice post | Knock on the road to stardom | PP welcomes Glendalough UNESCO plan | Vatican/Obama diplomatic row continues to deepen | Thousands of families face homelessness | Cardinal meets UDA group | Farrell struggles with faith | Lough Derg sheds bleak image | Bogus charities could stay in business for a decade |

|Recession bounce in Easter Mass numbers | Mission to convert Dublin’s Youth to faith | Philosopher priest: People can start hoping again | `Christ didn’t die for your sins, Gaybo’: Abbot | Nobel Poet believes in beatitudes, but not the afterlife | Irish Catholics must be more active in EU – Cardinal | President McAleese on Compostela trek | Banks escape, children pay | `God is dead’ is yesterday’s news | Bishops support the world’s most vulnerable|Download and read full edition now

| Missionaries contradict Nigerian FGM claims | Can the Church bring back women deacons? | Narnia decoded | Alcohol misuse is as dangerous as hard drugs | Kerry introduces rigorous child protection programme | Medical Missionaries elect new leadership | Humanists need take some history lessons | EU Parliament votes to protect embryo | Cardinal Brady pleads for some information on the `disappeared’ | `Religion makes you happier, healthier’ |

| Cloyne priests feeling positive for the future | Priests opt for pay freeze | Historic Belfast church reopens | US nuns reveal `tech-savvy’ | MPs clash over anti-Catholic legislation | Economic pressures lead to suicide increase | Church backs short term school selection | Pope orders Legionaries probe | Parishes mobilise to reduce dangers of alcohol abuse | Overseas aid cuts: `a matter of life and death’ |

|Irish missionary defends Pope in HIV/Aids row | Bishops set out crucial EU election priorities | FG confident of change to Euro manifesto | `Near death’ confession has penitent facing execution | Fr Troy’s French parish supports NI charity | Irish birthrate up 40% on 1999 | Cardinal Brady warns on state school appointments | IMU calls for objection to `pro-GMO’ Vatican study | Call for end to prison sentences for debtors | Embryo project bids to create synthetic blood |Download and read full edition now

| Vatican clamps down on Killala Latin Mass move | Papal visit `unlikely before 2012’ | To give or not to give | New York honour for Irish priest | Pay and pray at Croagh Patrick | After the Dublin Inquiry report, we will need a National Day of Prayer | Cardinal: Catholic schools under `significant threat’ | Falling Sterling pinches pilgrims | Fr Cullen receives Humanitarian Award | HSE is criticised over pro-euthanasia lecture |

| Fr Troy calls for dialogue with Real IRA terrorists | Welfare gets €16,489 in conscience money | Book of Kells movie proves a winner | `Dying need more rights than Last Rites’ | Trocaire fears ICC backlash | The Bible can make a liar out of you | Lay people need to take initiative | Salesians defend guest lecturer | Dublin Archdiocese reaches out to youth | Health advantages to religious belief revealed |

| All dioceses comply with child safety legislation |See the lillies of the field | Archbishop and Board clash over child safety report | Ferns thanks other dioceses for bail-out | Ireland awaits five new bishops | Celebrating Liturgical Music in schools | Religion regarded as `important’ to majority globally | Clouds have a silver lining | Vatican demands closure of tax havens | No babies for cash-hit mums |

| Reckless and greedy bankers should wear sackcloth and ashes | A truly Catholic audience | Minister refused ad ban meeting | Recession will help Ireland get real, says Bishop Tutu | Solution found to Muslim burial plea | One in ten Anglican ministers was Catholic| Worker probed for prayer e-mail | Abuse watchdog report due Tuesday | Drugs should not be legalised | Drink less during Lent _ Pioneers |

| Outrage at Anglo-Irish Bank’s champagne parties at Croker | Facts please, not fragments of reality | Answer to recession is supporting families: economist | Church will see watchdog report prior to publication | Senator’s `Yes’ to Lisbon if conditions right | Inspired bishop betting has bookies on the retreat | Duffy hosts new RTE religious programme | Legionaries `surprised’ by abuse allegations | New cold weather shelter filled by migrants | Universality of the Chu
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| Ferns priests volunteer for Garda checks | Church finds glory in humiliation | Cuts bad news for poor: Trocaire | Irish beef `vealy vealy’ good | Astrology shop fails to predict recession | Nurse suspended for offering prayers | Priests support Waterford protest | Limerick to host biggest theology conference | A children’s charter _ with old truths | Cork pays tribute to nuns |

| Government has refused to fund Catholic school Trusts | Oskar Schindler: a modern day `saint’ | Will Dublin Religious be heavily implicated in the Dublin Inquiry? | St Stan: `Primary school cuts are an appalling response’ | Iconic `Pepper Canister’ church hit by economic crisis | Cardinal Brady pays tribute to Loreto nuns | Vietnamese persecution of Christians revealed | How lending and bankers have changed | `Church has failed parents’ _ Archbishop | Catholic school
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| Bishops’ crisis meeting on child abuse fall-out | Witnessing to false gods | Pope sends telegram to President Obama | Minister: Ireland `most anti-Israel’ | Tributes paid to `Racing priest’ | SVP condemns `sneaky’ cuts to education | Bishop favours pay cuts `across the board’ | Call for inquiry into treatment of immigrants | Ethic of kindness can be rekindled | Learning a lesson from the Celtic Tiger |

| Cardinal Brady: Holy Land violence `appalling’ | Recession must never be seen as a good thing | Child protection `most important issue’ _ Cardinal | Vatican to tackle alleged visions | Aussies seek Irish family | Christmas appeals beat credit crunch | Cyber attack on cult watchdog | The puzzle of Obama’s pro-abortionism | Dublin diocese holds more abuse meetings | No recent audit of State child sex abuse claims |

| Pressure mounts on State to implement Ferns Report | What's on the (tarot) cards for religious freedom in 2009? | Bishops will sign assurance | Capitalism is dead _ Cardinal | Drop in pilgrim visits to Rome | Missionaries welcome end to bogus Mass card scams | Should we accept suspects from Guantanamo Bay? | Taoiseach welcomes papal message | Leadership needs to earn trust | The Cloyne Report |

| Bishops to back Lisbon II | Yearning for God through our embarrassment | Irish priest calls for land reform in Brazil | `Conscience of humanity cannot ignore poverty' | Pigs won't fly, if air charges soar | Priests defend huge 500,000 euro renovation bill | Scientology expose author cites Cruise control | Dublin hosts Messianic Jewish conference | Vatican does not criminalise gays _ spokesman | A half dozen gems of wisdom |

| Crisis of religion is deeper than just secularism | Irish troops overseas celebrate Christmas | Cardinal Avery Dulles SJ _ An appreciation | Journalist recreates the `Road to Bethlehem' | Oxford Excluding dictionary condemned | Joint Christmas message from Bishops of Clogher| Christmas cards and absent friends| Aziz appeals to the Pope | Searching for the `true' meaning of Christmas | Devotion is harder in a foreign country |

| `Our Christmas Miracle' | The end of a type of religious publishing | Religious magazines still have the last Word | Pray to end financial crisis _ economist | Vatican expert to speak on the Pope and Europe | India cancels crisis| Cloyne implements secret abuse report| Bishop Walsh's last ordination | Holy Land prepares for pilgrim influx | K & L `reaches out' to Christians in Holy Land |

| Irish internet Mass gave besieged Christians hope | Living in the age of the boot | Christchurch hit by funding loss | Pressure mounts over `daft' ban | Another woman slain in Orissa | Pineapples beat donkeys in Christmas wish list of the needy | Taoiseach praises role of the Church | Starbucks wakes up to the smell of Fairtrade coffee | Problem of teenage gangs | Archbishop urges priests to prepare for abuse report |

| Justice at last | Will you have a pint, Father? | Veritas elects to absorb VAT hike | Cura Timeline | Surge in poverty causes SVP branches to face credit crunch| Study finds that cohabitees more likely to suffer domestic violence| Should Rome forgive Lennon? | Bishop calls for NI schools clarification | Separated children being accommodated in hostels | Mullen stem cell Bill will ban embryo research |

| EU President praises Bishops' Euro stand | Archbishop: clerical abuse `staggering' | Saint Therese of Lisieux returns from outer space | Figures don't back vocations increase claims | Dromore launches youth award | Religious orders maintain vow of silence on finance | We love you, yeah, yeah, yeah | Acceptance of disability | Lourdes pilgrims hit by bug | Bishops' Conference publishes annual report |

| Gallagher's Achill `cult' making millions | Feeling the sacred and divine | Shane Geoghegan was not the first innocent killed | You can roll it there Gaybo | BCC defends Little's 'invalid' description | The Priests use fame to promote new vocations| Redress deal hit by property slump | The PSNI deserves support _ Cardinal Brady | Road to nowhere for hero priest | Under attack from militant atheists |

| Dáil may recommend more Lisbon opt-outs | Erring on the side of mercy | Cardinal's call on civil union bill criticised | Abuse costs may curb pastoral services in the Dublin Diocese | Call for EU to protect Sunday as day of rest | Bishop O'Reilly defends schools RE | Community fight priest on planning| Crackdown on Vatican slackers as financial crisis bites | Government assurance on marriage legislation | SVP helping middle-class poor with the basic needs |

| Church may challenge same-sex civil unions | Making good use of a Papal visit | Lotto money diverted from youth groups | Limerick man elected Glenstal Abbot | How clean are your hands? | Beaten up by nuns claims restaurateur | The Irish Catholic on the web | Dying patients need better pastoral care | New Armagh plan to involve more lay people | Bishop of Dromore in vocation push |

| Education cuts will cost Church millions | Synod of Bishops and positive preaching | EU bishops tackle ethics of climate change | Church to up game on research | UCC move leads to embryo legislation call | Irish scientist quits Britain | `Cohabitation must not be made equivalent to marriage’ | Archbishop Martin appointed to Vatican committee | NI school heads on collision course with Education Minister | NI abortion move is halted |

| Govt `U-turn’ on religion in schools | The party is over but who fills the vacuum | NI Pro-life campaign cautious but hopeful on abortion debate | Bishops welcome medical card climbdown | C of I: Hallowe’en glorifies evil | Mass attendance `holding steady’ in Dublin area | Jail those responsible for church demolition say residents| Madonna divorce puts focus on kids | Protestant schools hit in Budget | Immigrants are empowered by Pentecostalism |

| 14 Irish nuns under siege conditions among Taliban | Wealth and well-being decrease belief in God | Church spends €2.5m on central admin | Therapy dogs launched at animal blessing day | Budget 2009: What they said | Parents advised `Don’t lose the head’ on teen drugs | Envoy plays down attacks on Christians | New Killaloe primary schools enrolment policy | Pope’s paper gets a makeover | C of I defends Christian school patronage |

| Banks’ greed condemned by Bishops | Vision for the future for Radharc | Tell world God is not dead - Pope | Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich backed ousted Reverend | Faith helps to kick the drug habit | Majority of teens believe in God | `Nigerians come home’ | Religion `misrepresented by its critics’ | PTAA `open’ to lifting Good Friday restaurant alcohol restrictions | Another example of the world turned upside down |

| Call to lift ban on religious advertising | Church urged to act now against NI abortion plan | Bishop defends Catholic education | Sen. Mullen appointed to Lisbon committee | Catholics take it on the chin | Bishop outlines plans for future of Kerry diocese | Celibacy not necessarily the singlemost `cause’ of paedophile offences | Bishops restate case against same sex unions | Catholic schools starved of central funding - Church | UN criticised for Irish abortion push |

| Abortion law could `sink’ NI Assembly | Schools defend drug education record | Scientology denies school involvement | Fees not the answer to university participation | Bishops go `surfing’ | Religion rates over politics | Dublin diocese transfers homeless to De Paul Trust | Reawakening Europe’s Christian roots | Open letter to the Minister for Finance | The myth of brainwashing|

| Call for an apology to Nigerian priest | Govt defends gay-rights priest | Tributes paid to Kairos founder | Columban issues warning to sex tourists | President breaks ``vow of silence’’ | First national day dedicated to priests | Wall St’s fall_a moral tale | Faith grounded in facts | Medjugorje: making it official | Thousands celebrate grandparents |

| Church seeks meeting as schools rift deepens | Catholic Milltown allies with Trinity | Clergy get PR tips | Irish well represented at Lourdes anniversary | For whom the bells tolls - it tolls for you, Father | Charity enlists Papal help | Denominational schools | Maynooth to decide on Tridentine Mass | We must live a pro-life lifestyle - Bishop Brennan | Time for Fine Gael to be a real Christian Democrat Party |

| Violence Could Fill Norths Vacuum, Warns O'Loan | Religious Orders Suffer Market Losses | Prayer Time For The Protection Of Creation | Priest Condems Desecration Of Graves | Grand Master Open To Starting Catholic Ban Debate | Theres Really Something About Jack And Sarah | INTO - "Support Rights Of Parents" | Diocese Of Ossory Reaches Out To Farmers | Sarah Palin's Pain | Divorce Gene Discovered |

| Why Cardinal Brady is right on Europe | Bishop rejects "emotive language" in schools debate | New opus Dei parish for dublin | Scripture scholar to speak in cork | A Holy War In Donegal | Miss Sister beauty pageant launched | Minister praises missionary aid work | No new operator found for dublin to knock flights | GM Hosts may be against canon law | It would be wrong to give vote to kids |

| Bishop backs call for more consultation | Marriage annulments down | Priest accuses EU of 'genocide' in Ireland | Irish prisoners in Britain to get funding | China will not allow religious freedom | Ireland behind Holland in vocations table | Shrine to Our Lady at Croagh Patrick | Third level educationa  privilege, not a right | Stalin's birthplace at centre of conflict | Struggle for a fairer world economy |

| Schools backing Muslim headscarf | Church urges cluster bomb ban | Fairtrade Mass wine launched | Churches' backing for NI abortion stance | Call for Church clarity on Lisbon | Compromised ethics | C of I Synod passes 'articles' resolution | Communion: the going rate is... | Heroic witnesses | Begging for Balance |

|'Deep disquiet' over gay union move | Authorities investigate the House of Prayer | Church boycotts NI human rights bill | Late Late sacrifices children on the altar of tolerance | Child of the Sixties has a change of heart | Losing our religion? | Marking 40 years of civil rights | Knock, knock, who's there? | Travel Feature - Rome | Priests' deaths higher than initial results |

| Mass card trafficking deplorable - Bishop | Senate rejects gay marriage move | Thousands attend vigil for Polish victims | Warning after man attacked | Murder is murder | Confronting 'the oldest profession' | The pain of a marriage in trouble | The Church isn't the only institution suffering a crisis of 'relevance' | Lisbon Treaty - Why I am voting 'Yes' | Dealing with the 'Crisis of Vocations' |

| Vocation crisis | 67% want to have a pro-life amendment | Children's Ombudsman criticised over amendments comments | Pious punters scuppered by bookies | Prayers offered for irish troops stationed in Chad | EU move would damage ethos in Catholic schools | Another victim of secularism? | Silence is not the way | Cardinal calls for higher taxes | The changing religious landscape |

| Pope plea: pray to cleanse the Church | Trocaire launches Kenya appeal | Cardinal Brady 33/1 to be Pope | Schools censured for teaching Catholicism | Vatican release list of murdered missionaries | Kenya could learn from Irish Free State | Hardening our hearts with hope | Jesuits take stock in rapidly changing world | Own goal of 2007 awards | New Dominican deacons ordained |

| Church has no plans for schools handover | Taoiseach welcomes Pope's message | Developer demolishes convent | RTE do U-turn on crib ban | Children's rights complexities | 'Judge not that ye be not judged' | Vocations: sounding the alarm | Picturing the Past | Not a good year for God | Visions of Africa |

| EU treaty is devil We don't know | Bishop knew of murder plot | New Achonry Bishop "imminent" | Suicide case Reverend calls for law change | Young and old have been 'outsourced' | 'Crucifixion' of Staunton appaling' | Poverty Guide for Oireachtas | Missionary smeared as terror supporter | Extra study year for priests | Dr Brady was 'not dropped' from the Late Late Show |

| Peace Process was inspirational - Pope | NI Assembly to debate abortion | Welcome for new Ossory bishop | High Court finds for Christian view | Diocese launches migrant leaflet | 'Christians have key role in Europe's future' | Priests must defend migrants' rights | Is Anglicanism heading for schism? | Pope joins in appeal for Darfur | Pope puts away travelling shoes |