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, ...

McAleese desribes baptism as a kind of recruitment tool that ignores how children, as they mature, should be able to freely decide their own religious identity, noting that canon law acknowledges no ...

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 ...

For the Church’s first seven centuries, penance could be received no more than once in a lifetime. That policy dated back to the time of St. Peter. The New Testament tells us... - Published on August ...

They're Irish, they're Catholic, and they're proud. But you maybe haven't heard of them. They're the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, the oldest and largest ...

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 ...

21 new seminarians have begun their 2024-2025 academic programme and priestly formation for Irish dioceses, the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference announced on Wednesday, September 18. The 21 new ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

Despite my glaringly Polish last name, my upbringing in the faith was molded in many ways by the fiercely Irish side of my family. Icons of St. Patrick, the cross of St. Brigid and photos of my ...