Ireland’s housing minister has contacted the Archbishop of Armagh suggesting that the Catholic Church could better organize property sales to address a major housing shortfall, with tens of thousands ...

The Catholic Church in Ireland has launched an initiative to urge young men to consider joining the priesthood in an attempt to arrest a rapid decline in numbers. Just ten seminarians began their ...

EVEN though it was a major mortal sin when I was growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s of the last century, I don't worry one bit nowadays when I miss Sunday Mass. That was difficult anyway during the ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's Roman Catholic Church told the order of nuns who ran the former home where a mass grave of almost 800 children was found that it must co-operate with any inquiry into the ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has agreed to a legal settlement over his role in administering an oath of secrecy to a teenage victim of clerical sexual abuse in 1975, ...

Two Catholic dioceses in Ireland will soon be under the leadership of one bishop, a representative of Pope Francis has told local Irish bishops. In a joint statement, Bishop Brendan Kelly of Galway, ...

Back in the day when I was young – in the 1970s and ′80s – there was basically no homelessness in Dublin. Those were the days ...

Caitriona Beaumont receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is a Visiting Full Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland (2023-2025). It has been 87 years since ...

The college campus is situated on the Lower Falls Road in West Belfast, a location that placed it at the very front line ...

Nestled in the thick woods atop Irish Mountain in West Virginia, a small, whitewashed wooden church stood resolute for nearly a century and a half — until this morning. Irish Mountain is aptly named — ...