Topic: Ireland
Former Northern Ireland leader Ian Paisley condemned Friday an invitation for the pope to visit Britain later this year, while slamming child-abusing Catholic priests as "anti-Christ". The firebrand former Protestant preacher said the decision to invite Pope Benedict XVI to Britain in ...
Irish, Canadian and Indian officials joined victims' families at a ceremony Wednesday in the southwest of Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the midair bombing of Air India Flight 182. Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said it was with "great sadness" ...
Pope Benedict XVI on Friday begged for forgiveness for the paedophile priest scandals rocking the Roman Catholic in his clearest apology yet for the scourge. At a mass with some 15,000 priests marking the end of the Roman Catholic Church's Year for ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has indicated he will stay on in his role despite calls for him to resign because of a cover-up of a sexual abuse case decades ago. The church in Ireland, ...
The embattled head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has said he will not step down over allegations he sought to cover up a notorious case of serial child sex abuse. Cardinal Sean Brady, under intense pressure to quit amid a ...
The embattled head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland signalled Monday he would not step down over his links to a clerical child sex abuse scandal. Cardinal Sean Brady, under intense pressure to quit amid a paedophile priest controversy gripping the ...
The extent of the unimaginable sexual and physical abuse suffered by thousands of children in Catholic-run institutions in Ireland is becoming clear, but why did it remain secret for so long? Academics and victims say that the Church itself as well as ...
Irish bishop resigns as Vatican moves to get rid of prelates tainted by abuse scandalHeads are starting to roll in the Catholic Church's child abuse scandal. Weeks after Europe awoke to reports of clerical sex abuse in its own backyard, Pope Benedict ...
The abuse scandal that has swept through the Catholic Church in Europe cost the head of an Irish bishop Thursday as its leaders in England and Wales offered a full apology to victims. Irish bishop James Moriarty apologised to those who suffered ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Bishop James Moriarty, the Vatican said Thursday, bringing to three the number of Irish bishops who have stepped down due to the sexual abuse crisis. Moriarty tendered his resignation in December, ...
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