Michael Ring, Ireland’s minister for rural and community development, cuts the ribbon at the opening of Pope Francis Plaza in Knock in the west of Ireland on Aug. 21, 2018.

Dublin, Ireland, Apr 2, 2019 / 15:01 pm Parents and Catholic schools near Dublin have expressed their opposition to a Department of Education plan to divest a school in the area from its Catholic ...

Shock as expert predicts Catholic majority in Northern Ireland by 2021 Catholics will outnumber Protestants in only a few years, but leading researcher says that does not mean all will support a ...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Penal Laws in Ireland and Britain imposed fines, imprisonment and even death for Catholic priests who practiced their ministry.

To serve the nearly four million Irish who still identify as Catholic, the nation has just over 2,000 priests, but 15 percent of them are over the age of 75 (and not yet retired) and 25 percent ...

The disastrous decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland was there for all to see over the weekend. If Pope Francis was a compulsive tweeter like Donald Trump, he would have been all over the ...