Some of the Nationwide programmes over the past year have been a reminder of how much religion has shaped life in Ireland - ...

DUBLIN, Ireland — The leader of Ireland's 4 million Roman Catholics on Wednesday defended the need for a separate school system for Catholics in Northern Ireland, an issue long debated in the divided ...

The Catholic faith has, for decades now, been waning in what was once a devout stronghold of the faith, but a new survey is suggesting that Ireland may soon experience a sort of Christian revival, ...

For the first time since the Reformation about 500 years ago, Roman Catholics in Dublin will this month attend Christmas services and mass in their own official cathedral.

St. Mary’s University College in Belfast is marking the 125th year of a remarkable journey that began in 1900.

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

A new poll commissioned by the Iona Institute has found a marked revival of interest in religion among young people in Northern Ireland. The results are a clear reversal of the previous continuous ...

Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin announces the elevation of St. Mary's Pro Cathedral to formal cathedral status at a Mass to mark the bicentenary of the church's dedication in 1825 and the feast of ...

A bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat. Homes set alight. During the Troubles, similar tactics were used to target Irish Catholics in the territory. By Ali Watkins Ali Watkins reported from ...

Ireland's political leaders extended their congratulations after Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, May 8. Pope Leo XIV was elected ...

Churches will be full this week, but not everyone will find meaning when they visit them. We should ask why this is ...

The Church in Cyprus has yet to receive the memo and continues to put out hard-line messages on the Cyprus issue. The new ...