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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

DERRY, Ireland — Ireland has been blessed to host two papal visits in the last 50 years. The visits bookended a period in a country that had undergone significant change in its Catholic faith.

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 ...