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 ...

Oral and folk tradition recount that St. Brigid made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way Ireland’s patron saint, St. Patrick, used a shamrock to ...

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, ...

At the direction of Pope Francis, a number of changes were announced for diocesean leadership and organization of the Catholic Church in the West of Ireland on Wednesday, April 10. Two dioceses in ...

The first round of the 2021 Northern Irish census results were released on Sept. 22, and it produced a shocker: Catholics now outnumber Protestants for the first time since the Northern Irish state ...

President Joe Biden is traveling to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on Tuesday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which established a deal to end a violent ...

A peace wall separating Catholic and Protestant communities is seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 1, 2017. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were ...

Several prominent Irish clergy sexual abuse survivors are calling on Pope Francis to use his upcoming visit to their country at the end of August to admit to the Vatican's role for decades in helping ...

Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered this week in Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, for their Autumn 2024 General Meeting. During the gathering, Bishops discussed the Report of ...

New census data confirms that the once-dominant Protestants no longer predominate — a demographic change that could open the door to reunification with the rest of Ireland. A man walks past a Catholic ...