Irish forensic and archeological experts will begin the excavation of a church-run home for unmarried mothers where it's believed almost 800 children died.

A memorial is put up at the Tuam graveyard, where the bodies of 796 babies were uncovered at the site of a former Catholic ...

A long-awaited excavation at a former mother and baby home in Ireland hopes to identify the remains of infants who died there ...

The Holy Father invited a large group of teachers and young people from Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales to the ...

A retired secondary schoolteacher, he was “raised in a strongly Catholic household”. “By the age of 20 I had turned my back on the Catholic Church and religion in general.

Francis' first day in Ireland was dominated by the abuse scandal and Ireland's fraught history of atrocities committed in the name of purifying the Catholic faith. He received a lukewarm reception on ...

[ Two west of Ireland dioceses lose bishops as Catholic Church downsizes ] It was made by the new papal nuncio to Ireland Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor, an Argentinian who arrived in Dublin ...

The stark decline of the Catholic Church has pushed dioceses across Ireland to “breaking point” and the next five to 10 years could see parishioners having to preside over funerals and ...

The church in Ireland is launching a Year for Vocations as it grapples with a steep decline in seminary numbers and with aging priests. (OSV News photo/Seán Molloy, courtesy Irish Catholic) ...

From a Catholic perspective, it is fair to say that Archbishop John Ireland put Minnesota on the map. But he failed in his most cherished project: a new model for Catholic education.

According to a survey conducted by the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) last year, 15% of priests are over 75 and still working, over 25% are aged between 60–75, and just 2.5% of serving ...

Swarns' new book — The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church — expands on that article. It tells the story of the Church's history of enslavement ...