In Ireland, where religion has played such a big place in its past, for better or for worse, fewer and fewer people are attending mass on Sunday, and even less are willing to commit themselves to the ...

CORK, Ireland — St. Patrick’s Ireland, the “Land of Saints and Scholars,” preserved the learning of Greece and Rome and spread the Catholic faith that helped bring Europe out of its Dark Ages ...

Parents and Catholic schools near Dublin have expressed their opposition to a Department of Education plan to divest a school in the area from its Catholic patronage. The Catholic Church runs more ...

The Catholic faith has, for decades now, been waning in what was once a devout stronghold of the faith, but a new survey is suggesting that Ireland may soon experience a sort of Christian revival, ...

The people of Ireland are primed for change in the wake of the recent referendum that has paved the way to legal abortion in the country. The latest radical departure from Ireland’s Catholic roots is ...

In the sixth century, the monk St. Columba left the Emerald Isle and sailed to Iona to build a new monastery and spread the Christian faith. For centuries afterwards, Ireland held a reputation as a ...

The lukewarm reception for Pope Francis reveals the loyalty to the Catholic Church in Ireland has been utterly undermined since the last Papal visit of 1979, by Pope John Paul II. The disastrous ...

I’m off to Spain next week for a book tour, and will be stopping off in Dublin on the way home to give a Benedict Option lecture in Dublin, on January 21 (see here for details). I don’t usually give a ...

DUBLIN – Ireland, a once staunchly Catholic country, will hold a national referendum Friday on whether to overturn its strict abortion law, and polls show the vote will be close. If the measure passes ...

Ireland on Thursday is celebrating the 1,500th anniversary of the death of St. Brigid of Kildare, the Emerald Isle’s female patron saint. St. Brigid (c. 453–524 A.D.) is credited with pioneering ...

The results followed a contentious and emotional campaign. Voters in deeply Roman Catholic Ireland by a 2-to-1 margin support to repeal a 1983 constitutional ban on abortions, the official vote tally ...