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Catholic Church

This week
25th May 2025 - 30th May 2025
Pope prays for China’s Catholics to be in communion with Vatican after defiance of bishop agreement
Last week
18th May 2025 - 24th May 2025
Pope holds private audience with US vice president JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
The Vatican said there was an ‘exchange of views on some current international issues, calling for respect for humanitarian law and international law’.
Pope Leo XIV receives papal ring during inauguration and has private audience with Zelenskyy
What’s happened to Pope Francis’s social media accounts?
This month
May 2025
Quiz: How well do you know popes?
Opinion: To learn the lessons of Ireland's institutional past, we must teach it in schools
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley & Elaine Feeney
Pope Leo XIV calls for release of imprisoned journalists and is invited to Ukraine by Zelenskyy
Pope Leo XIV says he is 'deeply pained' by Gaza aid blockade in first Sunday address
Pope Leo XIV reveals reason behind papal name and visits Francis's tomb
'Woke Marxist Pope': Why MAGA Catholics aren't too happy about the election of Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV’s brother said the new pope ‘will be looking out for the disenfranchised and the poor, and he will follow Pope Francis’.
Yes, Pope Leo XIV has watched the hit film Conclave
'Did he just say Prevost?’: St Peter’s Square stunned by first American Pope, Leo XIV
'Praying we get the right pope for the right time': The Irish camping out in St Peter's Square
Explainer: When will we see the white smoke and a new pope?
If recent conclaves are anything to go by, we could see the new pope later today.
Explainer: The extreme measures taken to ensure the secrecy of the conclave
‘Not conservative or liberal, but holy’: What are Vatican insiders looking for from the next pope?
‘I don’t know if they’re looking for conservative, liberal, progressive, traditional, fat or thin.. I think they’re just looking for someone holy.’
Conclave: Here’s how the drama unfolded last time around, in Pope Francis’s own words
‘It was then that I began to understand. I understood at least that the danger was there.’
Pope Francis gave blessing for popemobile to become health clinic for Gaza children
Cardinal faces criticism for singing ‘Imagine’ while his supporters urged to stop making memes
China ‘elects’ two bishops despite Pope Francis's death, defying Vatican agreement
After changing his date of birth, this Cardinal from Burkina Faso can now vote in the conclave
Last month
April 2025
Italian cardinal convicted of embezzlement will not participate in upcoming conclave
Former bishop Brendan Comiskey, who resigned over Ferns Report, dies aged 89
Three busloads of Cardinals arrive to pay respects at tomb of Pope Francis and cause media frenzy
200,000 attend Mass for 'first millennial saint' on second day of mourning for Pope Francis
6am sprints and rooftop communion: Behind the scenes of the papal funeral
Small group of transgender people and prisoners among the last to say farewell to Pope Francis
The small group of transgender people live with a community of nuns that is supported by a Bishop who had a role in organising the funeral.
President Higgins attends lying in state of Pope Francis in St Peter's Basilica
He and his wife Sabina paid their respects to the late pontiff this afternoon.
On the red-eye to Rome: 'We were coming for the canonisation - now we're here for a funeral'
Next pope: What the Vatican choreography tells us about the possible outcome of the conclave
Opinion: Michael O'Brien's intervention was a watershed moment in our reckoning with abuse
Dr Sinéad Ring
Close to 20,000 people pay their respects to Pope Francis ahead of funeral on Saturday
By the afternoon, the wait to enter the church was more than four hours.
Pope Francis's body is moved to St. Peter’s Basilica to lie in state
The late pontiff will be buried on Saturday.
Irish woman who resigned from Vatican abuse panel says Pope Francis 'met resistance' from within
The Drimnagh-born Cardinal running the Vatican following the death of Pope Francis
Progressive versus traditionalist? The polarising issues that will define the next pope
Leo Varadkar: The way Pope Francis reached out to LGBTQ+ people and refugees made a difference
'Conclave of comedians': When Pope Francis met Father Dougal
Pope Francis died after stroke that led to irreversible heart failure, Vatican confirms
World leaders have been paying tribute following the pontiff’s death and preparations are now under way for his funeral.
President Michael D Higgins expressed his “profound sadness” on receiving the news of the pope's death.
Nine days of official mourning have been declared in the Vatican with the funeral expected to take place around next weekend.
Pope Francis had nightly Whatsapp calls with Catholics in Gaza since start of Israeli invasion