PLANS have been submitted to redevelop the landmark Catholic chaplaincy site at Queen's University Belfast.

Francis closed out a conference on East-West dialogue sponsored by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on his second day in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain.

Concerns arose after a photo was published of a stamp in the first edition of Immanuel Kant’s work On Eternal Peace from a library in Lviv.

MEL McMahon, the Lurgan-born poet, has in his collection Out of Breath a very poignant piece called At My Parents' Graveside.

THE Jesuits have been based in Belfast since 1988 and the order's work in the Diocese of Down and Connor has reached a new milestone with the opening of a dedicated centre in Donegall Street.

A cross-community family support programme set up by Quaker Service 40 years ago "in response to sectarian violence in north and west Belfast" is to end in December.

BOOK OF THE WEEK The Deep End: A Journey with the Sunday Gospels in the Year of Matthew By Tríona Doherty and Jane Mellett Messenger Publications, £12.

EACH year the Catholic Church marks the season of creation, running throughout September and ending on October 4, the feast of St Francis of Assisi.

ON the face of it, it was an unusual meeting, an encounter between representatives of God and mammon.

He asked at an outdoor Mass in Kazakhstan “how many deaths will it take?” for peace to prevail in Ukraine.

A PLANNED church closure which would have made a Derry parish the only one in Ireland to operate without a place of worship has been deferred for talks to find a way forward.