It was not until his late 20s that Vincent Doyle discovered that his dead godfather, a priest based in central Ireland, was in fact his biological father. And Doyle, a Catholic himself ...

The Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), in Ireland, says the church must ordain ... are only two priests under the age of 40 in the Dublin archdiocese, Father Sean McDonagh says the Church ...

Just one person is studying to become a Catholic priest in Dublin, it has emerged. Father Séamus McEntee, vocations director for the archdiocese of Dublin, confirmed The Sunday Times' report ...

DUBLIN, IRELAND -- Ireland’s Association of Catholic Priests marked its first year in existence with a Dublin meeting at which more than 300 priests heard a call for an end to mandatory celibacy ...

In the propaganda war that followed, Roscommon Herald publisher Jasper Tully led the prosecution, calling Connellan an ...

Last November, the Dublin Catholic diocese noted that “no ... here at the seminary that formed you possibly be the last priests in Ireland?” [ Author Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin: ‘I’ll always ...

This year, only 20 seminarians are studying to become Catholic priests for Ireland’s 26 dioceses at the national seminary in Maynooth. Weekly Mass attendance, which stood at 91% in 1975 ...

Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ, aired two documentaries in January looking at the decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland. “The Last Priests in ... soup runs for Dublin’s homeless people ...

For centuries afterwards, Ireland held a reputation as a deeply and even fundamentally Catholic nation, responsible for training priests and ... entire Archdiocese of Dublin, which comprises ...

Did you hear about the Irish Catholic priest booted from a Missouri diocese for sexual misconduct with a girl? He landed a job at Disney World. (But left, once Disney World found out.) Another ...

and just 2.5% of serving Catholic priests in Ireland, meanwhile, are under 40. “What we see now is priests in their mid to late seventies trying to run three parishes”, Father Tony Flannery, a now ...