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

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 ...

Mass attendance and daily prayer rise sharply, signaling a renewed spiritual vigor among Irish youth and faithful alike.

Father Michael Toomey is pictured in a file photo celebrating Mass in the nearly empty Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in Clonmel, Ireland. Once a Catholic giant, Ireland is becoming less religious, ...

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, ...

Reflecting on Father O'Brien's book, Bishop Coll said the Spiritan priest's emphasis on "mutual learning with integrity" can serve as a guide for future synodal discussions so that "the hunger among ...

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 ...

DUBLIN — Last week, Ireland voted to repeal a constitutional ban on abortion. Almost before that epochal change can sink in, the government is taking steps to end another practice backed by the ...

Pope Francis and other Christian leaders called for prayer and a rededication to the peace secured in Northern Ireland by the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, acknowledging that “open wounds” from the ...

The Catholic Church was once again center stage in Ireland last week with the controversy surrounding remarks by an 80-year-old priest in Co. Kerry. Father Sean Sheehy became an overnight media ...

The agreement helped end the period known as The Troubles that saw sectarian violence between Protestant unionists, who wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, and Catholic ...