The Bishop of Cork and Ross has described the establishment of 24-hour Eucharistic adoration for the first time in Cork city as “a real sign of hope” for the church. Fintan Gavin said the fact that ...

Forensic teams are excavating a mass grave at a former Catholic-run home in Tuam, where 796 babies were allegedly dumped by ...

While visiting Ireland this spring, I traipsed through a Catholic church in Galway. Off in one corner, a plaque described how convents over the last century, including one associated with ...

A childhood friend of the Dublin-born Cardinal who is effectively running the Catholic Church at the moment confirms ... grew up in Dublin before leaving Ireland at the age of 16 to join the ...

Michael D Higgins visited St Peter's Basilica ahead of the funeral of Pope Francis The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland and Irish ... Peter's Basilica on Friday night ahead of the funeral.

Into the soutane-black of a cool March 2013 Rome night, he emerged onto the world ... the first Jesuit to be elected as leader of the Catholic Church; the first to take the name Francis, drawing ...

Responsibilities for leading the Catholic Church after the death of a pope falls to the camerlengo of the church. The death of Pope Francis was announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Irish-born ...

Photo: Charlotte Gallagher A church in Co Donegal has been destroyed in an overnight blaze. The Teach Pobail Mhuire in Doirí Beaga, a Catholic church ... through out the night in fighting the ...

Born in Ireland ... Monday night. Farrell will be joined at the ritual by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, relatives of the pope and other church officials ...

In the Irish Catholic Church of my pre-Vatican II childhood ... I was desperate. On Election Night, I prostrated myself in front of the TV, to no effect. I went on a strict news fast, broken ...