It is in the interest of religious organisations to contribute to schemes as way of reducing costs, says Prof Conor O’Mahony ...

Leaders from Ireland’s main Christian traditions will host a “Service of Reflection and Hope” in Armagh, Northern Ireland on October 21, 2021, marking 100 years since “the partition of ...

Members of the Orange Order, a Protestant group, march in Portadown, Northern Ireland, in a weekly protest held for more than 20 years. Brexit negotiations have made the Irish border a central ...

A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts will next week begin excavating and trying to identify the remains ...

George Weigel says that Ireland has become “the most stridently anti-Catholic country in the Western world.” Excerpt: What has not happened, and what ought to happen sooner rather than later ...

A local historian’s research led the Irish government to find an unmarked mass grave with remains of about 800 children.

Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...

Weakening What Remains to the Point of Death. Pope St. John Paul identified the necrotic forces at work in the European churches that 12 years later have tipped the Irish Church into death: ...

Coughlan said the Irish Catholic Church would have to change in a new environment that included far fewer priests. “What we see in Ireland is a church that had been more institutional than a ...

The church in Ireland is launching a Year for Vocations as it grapples ... The survey revealed that 547 of the 2,100 priests working in the Irish Church are aged between the ages of 61 and 75 and ...

Parishioners and visitors attend Mass at a Roman Catholic church in the village of Knock, County Mayo, in this photo taken May 29, 2010. (Newscom/RTR/Cathal McNaughton) DUBLIN, IRELAND -- Catholic ...