Several Irish dioceses are very small by international standards, some with populations of fewer than 40,000 people. The current diocesan boundaries were set down in the 12th century and have ...

Bishop Duffy said the lay ministers will continue to be trained over the coming months and be commissioned to preside over funerals in their parishes.

So, looking at the map of Irish Catholic dioceses, why not amalgamate Dromore with Armagh archdiocese, bringing its total of parishes to 84?

Two Catholic dioceses in Ireland will soon be under the leadership of one bishop, a representative of Pope Francis has told local Irish bishops.

VATICAN CITY The pope on Saturday named a new bishop for the troubled Irish diocese of Cloyne, where for years its previous bishop ignored the Irish church's own rules requiring suspected priestly ...

August 28, 2024 at 6:00am BST Clogher Diocese will welcome its first new entrant for the priesthood in six years this September. The former teacher, aged in his 20s, will be entering the ...

DALLAS — Acknowledging he knows so little about Dallas that he wouldn't be able to find his way back to the airport, Irish-born Bishop Kevin Farrell stood in an ornate downtown sanctuary Tuesday ...

An Irish priest has been given permission by a US court to sue the West Palm Beach diocese over defamation. Father John Gallagher, a Tyrone native, claimed the Florida diocese tried to cover-up a ...

Clerical abuse survivors and their advocates are criticizing a new redress scheme in a Northern Irish diocese that has placed a cap on payments for victims. They say that while the scheme offers ...

DUBLIN — Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday accepted the resignation of another Irish bishop, leaving seven of Ireland’s 26 Catholic dioceses without one and raising expectations of major cutbacks ...

An Irish diocese has gone directly to parishioners and asked them to help solve the financial crisis caused by the spiraling cost of sex abuse cases. Parish priests in the Cork and Ross diocese ...

More than 40 laymen and laywomen in the Diocese of Clogher in the north of Ireland will soon begin presiding over funeral liturgies amid a shortage of priests. A major vocation crisis could result ...