In October 1850, County Wexford priest Father ... Upon his return to Ireland, he became a parish priest in County Wicklow and then established a loyal congregation in Wexford.

The Last Priests in Ireland will be followed on Tuesday by ... prudishness on Irish Catholicism at a Synod in Thurles in 1850. He imported 19th-century British morality to Ireland and passed ...

An Irish documentary has revealed that an Irish priest gave a young woman the last rites in a bid to "cure" her of her homosexuality. The RTÉ documentary "Outitude" reveals how Irish woman Marina ...

Irish priests' ever-increasing workload is threatening to turn this aging, demoralized and declining group into "sacrament-dispensing machines" who find pastoral work less and less satisfying ...

At one time more than half of all the Catholic priests in Alabama were from Ireland. Irish immigrants have helped popularize St. Patrick's Day in America. "It's bigger here probably than it is in ...

Irish priests frustrated with their bishops' treatment of them could resort to a High Court action to pressure religious leaders into respecting their rights, the annual general meeting of the ...

At his church office, he had another sign: "Kindness is spoken here." Kennedy was part of a generation of Irish priests who flooded into Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Tipperary ...

An Irish bishop apologized for a priest’s homily that described abortion and homosexual acts as examples of sinful behavior. Bishop Ray Browne of Kerry published an apology on Nov. 1 for “the ...

An Irish-born former Catholic priest has lost an appeal to retain his Australian citizenship and is now one step closer to deportation. Finian Egan, a convicted pedophile, has been fighting in ...

Irish Catholic priest, 51, believed to be involved with mother of two. Nov. 22, 2009 — -- A popular Irish Catholic priest has quit the priesthood to spend his life with a woman. Fr.

The novel, which was published in the United States in January, centers on Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, a real life Irish priest who helped form the Escape Line, an eclectic group of expatriates ...

a friend asked from more than 5,000 miles away in Ireland, where McAleenan was born and grew up. “I thought to myself, ‘What are you talking about?’ ” McAleenan said. The priest soon ...