The eye-catching new mural in the Bogside commemorating St Columba is a fitting and welcome tribute to this son of Donegal whose legend and legacy are felt across these isles and beyond through to ...

The Dublin-based Iona Institute for Religion and Society has released a comprehensive report that highlights significant ...

Instead of forbidding them, the church absorbed them ... This May observance soon spread to Roman Catholic parishes around the world. In both Ireland and Newfoundland, Catholics set up May ...

Since Pope John Paul’s visit, the Catholic Church in Ireland had been repeatedly rocked by cases of clerical abuse in schools, hospitals, Magdalene institutions and orphanages. In many instances ...

In his first role since winning the Best Actor Oscar for “Oppenheimer,” Cillian Murphy plays an Irish laborer living paycheck to paycheck in a small town dominated by the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church in Ireland must review its structures “to make sure that they are appropriate to the needs of the 21st century,” said Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran at his installation as ...

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis confirms it's using a professional laboratory to investigate a possible "Eucharistic miracle" at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. The Archdiocese of ...

As Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal Daly, who died in 2009, was the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland. The Housing Executive has said it did not put the St Kevin’s site up for sale adding ...

As one of Ireland's port villages, Cobh in Co Cork has a rich history. If you claim Irish descent, then there is a good chance that your ancestors left Ireland through Cobh (pronounced Cove ...

The Catholic church has faced fresh calls to lift a ban ... accorded to a former or serving head of state or government of Ireland (Uachtarán or Taoiseach)”. Earlier this year, former Taoiseach ...

Pope Francis announces number of changes in biggest restructuring of Irish Church in 900 years Pope Francis has announced a series of episcopal changes in the Irish hierarchy resulting in the most ...

The stark decline of the Catholic Church has pushed dioceses across Ireland to “breaking point” and the next five to 10 years could see parishioners having to preside over funerals and ...