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 ...

Paul Durcan, a poet whose native Ireland was his canvas for work that reflected sublime pleasures, historical memory and sly ...

Violence is ‘only a petrol bomb away’ from a death, warns human rights chief - Violence has broken out in Ballymena for the ...

He is an Augustinian priest and Villanova is the lone Augustinian Catholic university in the United ... So I offer prayers and congratulations to the whole church in celebration this evening. What a ...

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 ...