4+ hour, 13+ min ago  (585+ words) A religious community which has been ministering to the people of Cork for almost 800 years its to close its church in the city centre later this year. Vicar Provincial of the Augustinians in Ireland, Fr Paddy O'Reilly, told the congregation…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago  (80+ words) Sir, " The Catholic Church is and always has been a complex organism. Its practising members today would prefer if the range of Catholic behaviours spanning the atrocious to the less negative did not occur in the past, nor continue today…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (585+ words) Dublin's Catholic archdiocese has reported a record number of converts to the faith at its latest "rite of election" ceremony. A total of 129 "catechumens" and "candidates", as they are formally known, attended the 2026 ceremony at St Mary's Cathedral in Dublin,…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (76+ words) The British royal family should think hard on four words that doomed the Irish Catholic hierarchy: "I have compensated nobody." It was May 1995 and my old philosophy teacher, Archbishop Desmond Connell, was lying through his teeth on the Six One…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (442+ words) The majority of Gen Zs and millennials questioned in a survey wish to get married in a Catholic church, new data shows. The St Valentine's Day survey, carried out by Am'rach Market Research on behalf of the Catholic relationship counselling…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (447+ words) Some Catholic Church teaching "is rancid, has gone off and needs to be updated, former president Mary McAleese has said. "But it's not going to be updated by a bunch of, a tiny and increasingly small number of celibate male…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1015+ words) Throughout the world, there continues a long-standing, systemic and overlooked severe restriction on children's rights with regard to religion. This warrants, but has yet to receive, serious examination. It impacts Ireland in a special way and contemporary circumstances make Ireland…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (280+ words) Aggression by Christian commentators on social media has been described by the Catholic Primate of Ireland as "not of God. In a new year message, Archbishop Eamon Martin expressed concern that social media may be influencing people to come to…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (906+ words) St Mary's has been elevated to a cathedral at'time when Dublin's Catholic Archdiocese faces financial meltdown Catholicism may be raising its head high but the body underneath is ailing It's an irony that St Mary's has been elevated to a…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (996+ words) The conviction of a man in May prompted a series of reviews of safeguarding procedures at the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI), a senior church figure has said. Hundreds of Presbyterian ministers and elders attended a special general assembly in…...