Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral, which has served Catholics in the capital for nearly 200 years, may be about to lose its current status and become a basilica under a diocesan plan, while St Andrew’s ...

Let me take a brief look at the changed demographics of Catholic Ireland. Church attendance is very low in some areas, especially in socially deprived areas. In Dublin, Mass attendance is ...

Thirty-year-old Mahon McCann was baptized during the Easter Vigil Mass in his parish of Rathfarnham in Dublin this year. He ...

The protest took place at the Spire and outside the Pro Cathedral in Dublin at the weekend, with members of Catholic group We Are Church Ireland calling for change in the church’s “patriarchal ...

Ireland is ground zero of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis ... Colm O’Gorman, who is leading a solidarity rally Sunday in Dublin for abuse victims, said Francis’ remarks about ...

This provoked an observation from John Henry Bernard the Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin who said of the Catholic bishops that they were thoroughly disloyal and anti-British. More ...

The stark decline of the Catholic Church has pushed dioceses across Ireland to “breaking point ... Mr Kelly explained: “In many parts of Dublin now, Mass attendance is about 3%.

On the Emerald Isle, which draws many tourists for its green, unspoiled landscapes, Catholic ... around Ireland where people have made changes,” she asserted, giving the example of a church ...

As Ireland undergoes a steep reported drop in religiosity, the isle of saints and scholars awaits a September report by a European rights court on the country's abortion ban. The recommendations may ...