A new poll published by the Irish Times newspaper today shows that 76 percent of Irish people believe that the Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, should resign over the Irish Church’s handling of clerical sexual abuse.

Pope Benedict told officials of the European Council's Development Bank during a Vatican audience on Saturday that the needs of families must be central to their planning as they devise solutions to the continent's financial crises.

The Italian-born Bishop of Izmir who conducted the funeral of the slain leader of the Catholic Church in Turkey, Bishop Luigi Padovese, has been appointed by the Vatican as the new apostolic vicar of Anatolia.

Pope Benedict has described the 'Year for Priests' as a "summons to purification" in the Church.

A Dutch-born Cistercian abbess who has served as a superior of abbeys in Denmark, Germany and Peru, is being sought by Danish police for questioning over the 1993 death of a fellow nun.

Superstar Susan Boyle is expected to sing for the Pope during his visit to Britain, it was announced on Thursday.

“The Church is not a threat to the legitimate independence and proper role of the secular State”, the new Archbishop of Southwark said at his installation on Thursday.

A spokesman for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales has welcomed the appointment of Lord Patten of Barnes to oversee the Government’s arrangements for the Pope's visit to Britain.

Reports are emerging that the man accused of killing Bishop Luigi Padovese of Turkey shouted "Allah Akbar!" as he beheaded the 63-year-old prelate.

The Bishop of Lancaster told hundreds of people who packed a church on Monday night to pay their respects to those killed in the Cumbrian shootings that the Catholics of the Diocese were standing alongside the families of the victims and the injured, united in grief and prayer.