Despite losing 1,200 churches, America has gained 2.9 million Catholics since 2010, according to an NBC News analysis of data ...

Travel guru Rick Steves recommends visiting this underrated destination in Northern Ireland that features lots of interesting ...

Author’s debut novel, Ordinary Saints, celebrates the power of faith, even as it criticises the Catholic Church ...

The new pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, was elected the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church and head of the Holy See after the sad ...

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He noted special eagerness in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States ... “It seems like in Italy there’s a certain inquisitiveness about the mechanisms of the Catholic hierarchy, but it’s a ...

including St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, first built in 445, St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, built in 1838, the Armagh Observatory, opened in 1790 and now home to the more ...

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I was on the road to nowhere. On the map, I kept to the blue highways. At night, I slept in a tent. I thought of myself as an apprentice Kerouac. Gone, Ireland. Gone, the strictures of Catholicism.

Photo: Getty Catholic social teaching isn’t something you hear about much in Ireland these days. Tainted by the abuse scandals and waning church influence, it’s become a byword for a rigid ...