Bishop Alan McGuckian, Chair of the Irish Bishops’ Council for Migrants and Refugees, has expressed “serious concern” over ...

At the end of a two-day Vatican summit with Ireland’s bishops, Pope Benedict XVI said today priestly sexual abuse was a “heinous crime” and a grave sin, and he urged the country’s bishops to act ...

It was not until his late 20s that Vincent Doyle discovered that his dead godfather, a priest based in central Ireland, was in fact his biological father. And Doyle, a Catholic himself, says that ...

The funeral of Bishop Eamonn Casey in 2017 seemed to draw a line under his scandalous affair years before. But this summer, disturbing new allegations emerged. By Dan Barry Reporting from Galway, ...

The Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference has voiced its opposition to a report recommending the legalization of euthanasia or assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. In a pastoral letter entitled ...

(AP) — An extraordinary summit between Irish bishops and Pope Benedict XVI opened Monday with a prayer and fraternal kisses in what Ireland's top bishop called a first step toward repentance for the ...

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Ireland’s Catholic bishops have announced they will embark on a “synodal pathway” for the Church and hold a National Synodal Assembly within the next five years. The ...

Accord, the Catholic Church agency in Ireland that provides marriage preparation courses as well as marriage and relationship counseling, issued an updated version of its marriage preparation ...

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Irish bishops say they “totally reject” a parliamentary committee report advocating the legalization of assisted suicide in the Republic of Ireland. The Irish parliament ...