Mary Cunningham outlines the CDF's controlling role in the silencing of Fr Sean Fagan, undermining Archbishop Charles Brown's recent assertion that such actions are a matter for a religious priest's superior

As the universal Church celebrates the Fifth Sunday of Lent and asks God's blessings on our new pope, the Irish Church invokes the help of Patrick, our national apostle, on his springtime feastday: may the faith he taught always remain fresh in Ireland and wherever Irish missionaries carried it.

Pharisaic Judgment