It tells the story of how the Irish State moved from a cosy symbiotic partnership with the Catholic Church since independence ...

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 ...

Father Owen Gorman remembers when Masses in Ireland were so crowded on Sundays that people had to sit on the steps outside the church. “I grew up in a time in the 1970s and ’80s when churches were ...

In Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery, the tomb of Daniel O'Connell, known as "The Liberator," is inscribed: "My heart to Rome, my body to Ireland and my soul to heaven." The College Chapel at St. Patrick’s ...

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 ...

How is it possible that Ireland, one of the most Catholic countries in the world, voted overwhelmingly to legalize gay marriage in an historic vote on May 22? Throughout the world, the Roman Catholic ...

Replica mosque placed on loyalist bonfire in Co Tyrone ...

Editor's note: This story is part of "Growing a Green Church," an ongoing series focused on churches' efforts to steward their buildings and land effectively in the context of a changing climate. The ...