Ireland’s blasphemy referendum ‘small step towards 21st century constitution’
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has hailed Ireland’s blasphemy referendum as a small step towards creating a 21st century constitution.
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Ireland’s blasphemy referendum ‘small step towards 21st century constitution’
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has hailed Ireland’s blasphemy referendum as a small step towards creating a 21st century constitution.
Most Irish people believe Pope did not go far enough on clerical abuse
Most Irish people believe Pope Francis did not do enough to address clerical abuse during his recent visitd, researchers have said.
German bishops apologise for thousands of sex abuse cases
A senior German bishop has apologised for thousands of sexual abuse cases reported to have taken place inside the Catholic Church in Germany.
Catholic church sued for six-figure sum over fatal fall in Dundee care home
Relatives of a 94-year-old man who plunged to his death from the window of a Dundee care home are suing the Catholic Church for a six-figure sum.
Faith no more: Are Scotland’s churches facing a crisis of Christianity?
As churchgoer numbers continue to fall in Scotland, is Christianity in crisis? Michael Alexander reports.
Could ‘lost treasure’ lie beneath the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral?
Could "lost treasure” – including the relics of Scotland’s patron saint – lie hidden beneath the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral - or is the suggestion a misguided dream? Michael Alexander speaks to an author and researcher who hopes to solve a 500-year-old mystery.
Dundee pupils and staff pray for St John’s school teacher 50 years on from shooting
Staff and pupils at a Dundee academy have remembered a former teacher exactly half a century on from her murder.
500 years after the start of the Protestant Reformation, what lessons can be learned in modern Scotland?
Five hundred years after the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Michael Alexander examines the bloody role of St Andrews in the Scottish Reformation that followed and asks Scotland’s modern day Catholic and Protestant leaders what lessons can be learned from a tubulent past.
Kirk condemns apparent anti-Catholic attack in Rosyth
The Church of Scotland has condemned the perpetrators of an apparent anti-Catholic attack in Rosyth last week.