# religion - Monday 20 May, 2013
Australia is holding a government inquiry into how child sex abuse was handled, amid claims that about 620 children were abused by the Catholic Church since the 1930s.
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# religion - Sunday 28 April, 2013
In a recent broad-ranging interview, Ruairí Quinn talks patronage, third-level fees, Margaret Thatcher’s funeral and his own future.
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# religion - Friday 26 April, 2013
Ireland was traditionally a nation ruled by the Catholic Church. Now that people are drifting away, it’s important to examine why, writes Brian Conway.
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# religion - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
They’ll be opponents next Sunday in Croke Park and the pair were both involved at the stadium last year in the Eucharistic Congress.
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# religion - Monday 22 April, 2013
This question is not born out of contempt, says TheJournal.ie columnist, but is out of genuine bewilderment when you consider the status of women in Catholic doctrine.
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# religion - Saturday 6 April, 2013
# religion - Friday 5 April, 2013
The judge ruled that current restrictions requiring teens to obtain a prescription were “politically motivated” and “scientifically unjustified”.
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# religion - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Religious tensions are running high in the country, despite police assurances that the blaze was accidental.
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# religion - Sunday 31 March, 2013
In his first Easter Sunday message in front of a crowd in St Peter’s Square, Pope Francis prayed for Syria, the Korean peninsula and issued an appeal for hostages held by militants in Nigeria.
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As the Christian world marks the most important date in its calendar, we’d like to know if you plan to do anything religious for Easter.
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# religion - Friday 29 March, 2013
The pope has attended the Passion of Christ in St Peter’s Basilica ahead of a torch-lit procession at the Colosseum later tonight.
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It’s true Northern Ireland has come a long way over the last fifteen years, but we cannot afford to hang the ‘mission accomplished’ banner over the peace process, writes David McCann.
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# religion - Sunday 24 March, 2013
Protecting the staff of religious-run medical and educational institutions who are members of the LGBT community or those who are single parents should be a priority, especially if they receive state funding, says Ivana Bacik.
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# religion - Saturday 16 March, 2013
Follow in the footsteps of St Patrick this weekend… or at least to the places he’s reputed to have visited for special events.
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# religion - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Cardinals in conclave at the Vatican have revealed the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church: Pope Francis.
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# religion - Monday 11 March, 2013
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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The figures in the current INTO survey were compared to similar research undertaken 10 years ago.
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# religion - Saturday 9 March, 2013
In an interview aired last night, two anonymous nuns defended the Magdalene laundries and said religious orders had no need to apologise.
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# religion - Friday 22 February, 2013
Roman Catholic priests should be able to marry and have children, Britain’s most senior cardinal has said.
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# religion - Friday 15 February, 2013
Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, the pope’s personal secretary, will keep his old job but will also oversee the new pope’s household.
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# religion - Saturday 9 February, 2013
It began with a vote and ended with burnt-out offices, dozens of injuries and arrests, and a sense that a fragile peace had been disrupted.
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# religion - Friday 8 February, 2013
Figures from the CSO show Saturday 31 July was the most popular date for marriage in 2010.
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# religion - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The report published today includes a section devoted to survivors’ first-hand accounts of life in a Laundry.
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The four orders whose Laundries were investigated in the report express regret for the abuse uncovered there.
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Despite a common perception that the laundries were highly profitable, the report by Senator Martin McAleese says they barely broke even.
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# religion - Thursday 17 January, 2013
Philippines legislators passed the landmark law providing government funding for contraceptives and sexuality classes, despite strong opposition from the dominant Roman Catholic Church.
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# religion - Monday 14 January, 2013
Parents in 38 Irish towns are voting on the type of school they want to send their children to but what do you think?
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Ruairí Quinn said the survey is a historic opportunity to parents say whether schools should be denominational, multi-denominational, all-Irish or something else.
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# religion - Thursday 10 January, 2013
The Government is desperate to avoid “abortion on demand”, writes Sarah McCarthy – but in reality, women should be trusted to make the choice.
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# religion - Wednesday 9 January, 2013
Many Catholics in the country were shocked by the Pope’s recent call to “fight” gay marriage.
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# religion - Sunday 30 December, 2012
The woman told police that she pushed the man in front of the train because she hated Muslims and Hindus.
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# religion - Thursday 27 December, 2012
Italian Catholic’s Christmas message prompts fury as he claims that “provocative” clothing and “arrogant” attitude gets women into trouble.
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# religion - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
In Census 2011, 84 per cent of the population described themselves as Roman Catholic, and there were a number of other smaller Christian groupings recorded too. Does that translate into people in pews on Christmas Day?
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# religion - Saturday 22 December, 2012
The Presbyterian church in Seoul is being decked out in lights from today – a display which North Korea sees essentially as a rude gesture at Pyongyang.
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# religion - Friday 21 December, 2012
The letter warned Dr Martin to be “careful” on the streets because of his views on abortion.
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# religion - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
Police seized leaflets, video discs, books and other materials as they made arrests across eight provinces and regions.
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Christians are the world’s biggest religious group, numbering some 2.2 billion people.
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# religion - Saturday 15 December, 2012
The Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke will be enthroned as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland today.
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# religion - Monday 10 December, 2012
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