The Holy Cross and Blessed Sacrament parishes in Olyphant and Throop consolidated into one Tuesday, taking on a new identity and becoming one of the first Roman Catholic churches worldwide to name ...

While Saint Patrick is often credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland, historical evidence tells a different story.

Michael Scanlon writes of the Irish New York neighborhoods of old and how Irish immigrants have passed them on to immigrants ...

Ronald Appleton KC, who has died aged 97, was ­Senior Crown Prosecutor of Northern Ireland for 22 years until 1999, a period ...

Hallow — a Catholic audio prayer app that seeks to compete with secular meditation apps like Calm and Headspace — reached a milestone this weekend when it logged the one billionth prayer prayed with ...

The future of the St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral is brighter than ever as parish fundraising for renovations breaks ...

It was an emotional night that saw Bernard tell tales of the 1980s film business in Ireland, taking his second novel and ...

After a decade of research and public ridicule, historian Catherine Corless has been vindicated as excavation begins at the ...

Exhumation has began to identify the bodies of 796 babies and children buried in a disused sewage tank at a Catholic mother and baby institution in Co Galway.

A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland's "mother and baby" home scandal.

Father Patrick Mullan, the chaplain for the Office of Deaf and Disabilities Ministry of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington who served as the chaplain for the archdiocese’s pilgrimage to Rome ...

Intact Roman pot (at right) in excavation pit, Drumanagh, Ireland. DRUMANAGH, IRELAND—Last year, Irish archaeologists working at a fort on the Drumanagh promontory north of Dublin uncovered a ...