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, ...

A U.K. Supreme Court ruling has found that Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland is unlawful, ...

CORK, Ireland — St. Patrick’s Ireland, the “Land of Saints and Scholars,” preserved the learning of Greece and Rome and spread the Catholic faith that helped bring Europe out of its Dark Ages ...

Ireland was once famous for dispatching Catholic missionaries to pagan lands. But now an increasingly secularized Ireland needs missionaries sent to it. The once-pious island has gone from saving ...

Group calls it ‘shocking’ that Vatican commission believes ‘masculinity of Christ is integral part of sacramental identity’ ...

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, ...

I’m off to Spain next week for a book tour, and will be stopping off in Dublin on the way home to give a Benedict Option lecture in Dublin, on January 21 (see here for details). I don’t usually give a ...

The last Programme for Government had a target of 400 primary schools for divestment. With the projected reduction in the ...

Being Catholic was “seen as a barrier to assimilation in a predominantly Protestant society” in the US during the Famine era Research conducted at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee found that the ...

Special correspondent Saul Gonzalez reports from Ireland, where the Catholic Church continues to reel from the allegations and resignations surrounding the child sex abuse scandal. Next: the sex abuse ...

An amazing letter written by a nun in Tipperary in 1961 reminds us that these Catholic nuns were products of their time and truly believed that they were saving these children and "they would see the ...

On any given Tuesday night in 2014, you could find my friend Addie and me at the Half Door, an Irish pub in Hartford, Connecticut, filled with locals and our fellow college students. Tuesday was $2 ...