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Michael Scanlon writes of the Irish New York neighborhoods of old and how Irish immigrants have passed them on to immigrants ...
A close knit community in Co Donegal kept an all night vigil at a church in Castlefinn following the death of a much loved Diocese of Derry Priest. Fr Oliver Crilly, PE of Urney and Castlefinn Parish ...
Archbishop Eamon Martin, the Catholic Primate of All-Ireland, said he had a "great sense of the universality of the church" upon arriving in the Vatican ahead of the funeral.
JORGE Mario Bergoglio was a Pope of firsts, the outsider’s outsider. Into the soutane-black of a cool March 2013 Rome night, he emerged onto the world stage clad in simple white robes, a shaft ...
Who is Kevin Farrell, the man leading the Catholic Church after Francis' death? Farrell was nominated by Pope Francis to be camerlengo in Feb. 2019, according to the Catholic News Agency.
The Teach Pobail Mhuire in Doirí Beaga, a Catholic church in the Diocese of Raphoe, was gutted in the fire. Gardaí assisted local fire services at the scene of the fire in Derrybeg, Co Donegal ...
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the senior Vatican official who announced Pope Francis' death on Monday morning, will serve as the interim manager of the Vatican until a new pope is elected, according to ...
In 1984, Farrell was incardinated in the archdiocese of Washington, D.C., where he served as assistant pastor at St. Thomas the Apostle Church for a year before becoming the director of the ...
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the senior Vatican official who announced Pope Francis' death on Monday morning, will serve as the interim manager of the Vatican until a new pope is elected, according to ...
Mary Norris humorously riffs on the panic induced by Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s absurd and damaging actions, on the Catholic Church, and on throat blessing and St. Blaise Day.
In the Western church, Jan. 6 is the Feast of the Epiphany, marking the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus, traditionally the last of the 12 days of the Christmas festival. In many Eastern ...