After years of bad news and declining numbers, is Catholic Ireland experiencing a revival—particularly among young men?

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, ...

O’NEILL: My hope is that secularism does not eclipse Catholicism in Ireland, a largely poor country situated in the industrial world whose Catholic faith has played no small role in its ...

Church of Ireland dioceses and cathedrals have prepared a wide programme of worship, music and community events to mark St ...

Catholic priests have celebrated Masses for “the renewal of the faith” at Mass rocks in all of Ireland’s 26 dioceses. The priests offered the Masses at secluded locations where their persecuted ...

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 ...

Changes afoot for Catholic Church in Ireland as Vatican Synod approaches Storm clouds are gathering around the Catholic Church in Ireland following the publication of a report on a process that sought ...

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 ...

At the direction of Pope Francis, a number of changes were announced for diocesean leadership and organization of the Catholic Church in the West of Ireland on Wednesday, April 10. Two dioceses in ...

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 ...

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 Irish Church. I am left asking the question: Is ...