Thirty-six Catholic religious congregations in the State have offered 450 rooms in convents, retreat centres, former student accommodation, and houses for Ukrainian refugees. The Association of ...

(The Conversation) — A church service marking Northern Ireland’s centenary has stirred up debate. But amid the past few years’ tensions, the island’s Christian leaders have coordinated closely. (The ...

TIME was very much on the minds of clergy, the congregation and distinguished guests as we gathered in St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast last Sunday to celebrate two significant anniversaries. The next ...

Once deemed the “most Catholic country,” Ireland now has a population that is struggling in their relationship with Catholicism. “People are rejecting something they don’t even remember,” says Malachi ...

I entered the seminary in Dublin in October 1962, just one week before the opening of the Second Vatican Council. The winter of 1962-63 was one of the bleakest in decades, and our seminary was a very ...

LP Hartley wrote in his 1953 novel The Go-Between that “the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”. Increasingly Northern Ireland is becoming a foreign "country" where the ...

The head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church will begin an Apostolic visit to Ireland today. The visit by His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Mathews III is the first by a Malankara Orthodox Syrian ...

This column has been updated since it was posted. The vote in Ireland has been to legalize same-sex “marriage,” an outcome that suggests a loss of moral clarity among the majority of Catholics in the ...

Pastors gear up to welcome evangelicals back to the “greater glory” of church life following 14 months of isolation. On Monday, Ireland emerged from one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns, allowing ...

The cult of Saint Brigid, with its emphasis on nature and healing, and its shift away from the patriarchal faith of traditional Catholicism in Ireland, is attracting people from around the world. By ...