# catholic-church - Today’s News
The Archbishop of Armagh was speaking after the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church published its review of practices in the archdiocese.
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As further reviews of child protection measures across Catholic Church in Ireland published, “anomaly” emerges.
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In one case, a priest believed to have abused at least 50 victims since 1966 did not leave the society until 2002.
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The NBSCCCI said the files they read left them in no doubt that a “great number of children were seriously abused by Brothers”.
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However, the tone used to some complainants was “inconsistent” – some responses were compassionate and others were “sharp in tone”.
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The second-largest diocese in the country has dealt with cases involving 14 living priests in recent years, dealing with each of them properly, a report by the Church’s child safety watchdog has found.
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The largest audit of Church bodies to date will be published today, with Christian Brothers particularly under the microscope.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 5 December, 2013
UN committee’s questionnaire on Vatican’s own investigations into clerical sex abuse cases also remains unanswered.
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# catholic-church - Monday 2 December, 2013
The parish priest in Buncrana will have final approval on headstones and there are strict guidelines for flowers and plants.
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# catholic-church - Saturday 30 November, 2013
Discreet daily rounds of charity-giving based on letters sent to Pope Francis.
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# catholic-church - Tuesday 26 November, 2013
Pope Francis is looking for suggestions on how his role should change, and has called for powers to be taken away from the Vatican.
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# catholic-church - Monday 4 November, 2013
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you kick off your day.
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A statement from the Bishop of Kilmore says that the complaint relates to events that happened “a considerable time ago”.
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# catholic-church - Saturday 2 November, 2013
A large exhibition of early 20th century publications are going on display in Dublin.
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# catholic-church - Tuesday 29 October, 2013
The review, commissioned by the Association for Catholic Priests, says that the Murphy report into child sexual abuse in Dublin “went well beyond its mandate”.
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# catholic-church - Wednesday 23 October, 2013
The bishop flew to Rome last week with low-cost airline Ryanair to explain himself to Pope Francis after the cost of his extravagant new residence complex blew out to at least €31 million
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# catholic-church - Thursday 17 October, 2013
The Catholic Bishop of Limburg is generating critical headlines after blowing €31m on his new palace.
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# catholic-church - Monday 14 October, 2013
Derek Keating has been told not to fulfil his duties as a minister of the Eucharist at St Mary’s Parish in Lucan in the wake of his support for the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill last July.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 10 October, 2013
The allegations relate to 81-year-old Father Cornelius Kelleher’s time as a Catholic pastor in Minnesota between 1975 and 1986.
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# catholic-church - Wednesday 9 October, 2013
The Church says that it will not make any compensation offer to those who were abused.
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# catholic-church - Wednesday 2 October, 2013
The hospital’s decision to say it will comply with the abortion act has led to Father Kevin Doran’s resignation.
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Three years ago William Lee apologised for not withdrawing a priest accused of sexual abuse from ministry immediately.
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# catholic-church - Monday 30 September, 2013
Pope Francis today announced the date for the canonisation ceremony which is expected to bring hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Rome.
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# catholic-church - Tuesday 24 September, 2013
A long-distance dialogue between the former pope and a mathematician has provoked reaction around the world.
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# catholic-church - Wednesday 18 September, 2013
Bing Crosby, the 1913 Lockout and illegal beer houses are all on the agenda as the Archdiocese of Dublin opens a former seminary to the public.
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# catholic-church - Monday 16 September, 2013
An inquiry into church and institutional child abuse began public hearings today with warnings that widespread and “shocking” allegations will be heard.
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# catholic-church - Saturday 14 September, 2013
# catholic-church - Friday 13 September, 2013
Parish collections raised towards the event accounted for €4 million of that amount, according to Catholic Church figures.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 12 September, 2013
A Vatican official has said it could be discussed.
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The recently appointed Vatican Secretary of State said that the issue is a great challenge for the Pope.
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# catholic-church - Monday 9 September, 2013
A spokesperson for the Catholic Church was responding to a report at the weekend that TDs were being warned off seeking Communion by their priests.
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# catholic-church - Saturday 31 August, 2013
I believe strongly in the idea that we are formed by our past, so I tried to understand how the practise of churching in 1913 Ireland affected the women cleansed of the ‘sin’ of childbirth, writes Louise Lewis.
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# catholic-church - Tuesday 27 August, 2013
Dominican novice Conor McDonough explains why he left behind his fledging teaching career in favour of the “radical” option of a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
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# catholic-church - Monday 26 August, 2013
There are now 90 seminarians in total studying at the college.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 22 August, 2013
The Dublin Archdiocese said that rumours that he is leaving for Rome is just “empty speculation”.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 15 August, 2013
Society pays for its public health services through taxation, and the ethos of any public institution should reflect the secular, multi-denominational ethos of the citizenship it serves, writes Dr Mark Murphy.
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# catholic-church - Saturday 10 August, 2013
Plus: How many hoax calls are made to the HSE ambulance service every day?
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# catholic-church - Thursday 8 August, 2013
Over 12,000 people downloaded a Declaration of Defection from CountMeOut.ie, but changes to canon law have made it difficult for the site to operate, a founder says.
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# catholic-church - Sunday 4 August, 2013
The cleric asked the congregation to pray for the loved ones of Eoghan and Ruairà Chada from nearby Bagnalstown Parish in his ordination ceremony at Carlow Cathederal.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 1 August, 2013
We’ve watched people disappear from our churches in recent year but Pope Francis has brought some back, writes Father Seamus Ahearne, who says from his first appearance, this pontiff showed he was different.
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