Ireland
Irish Catholic counselling agency agrees to help gay couples
The government had threatened to remove its funding
Riverdance to perform for Pope Francis at World Meeting of Families
The ‘Festival of Families’ will be a two-hour spectacle of music and dance
Tickets for papal events in Ireland are selling out fast
But places can still be reserved for Pope Francis’s open-air Mass in Phoenix Park
Will Ireland’s Catholic hospitals defy Varadkar?
The prime minister is demanding that Catholic hospitals perform abortions. Will they comply?
Critics plan rival conference to World Meeting of Families in Dublin
The parallel conference will feature Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Cardinal Burke
Does Leo Varadkar want to close all of Ireland’s Catholic hospitals?
If Varadkar forces them to perform abortions, they cannot stay Catholic
Catholic hospitals in Ireland will be required to perform abortions, says Leo Varadkar
The Irish prime minister said doctors and nurses would be able to opt out but not publicly funded institutions
Fr James Martin to speak at World Meeting of Families
The Archbishop of Dublin said Fr Martin’s book had the support of three US cardinals
Itinerary for Pope Francis’s Ireland trip released
The trip will include a visit to the Marian shrine at Knock, but not to Northern Ireland
If ‘Catholics for Labour’ can’t oppose abortion, what’s the point of it?
I was hopeful when the group of Labour MPs was founded. But its response to the Irish referendum suggests it shouldn’t exist
