Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by scandal ...

Irish leaders have paid tribute to Pope Francis as an “exceptional” and “remarkable figure” who spoke up for the poor and ...

The Friends of Saint Brendan hosted the ‘Gathering for Good’ to celebrate the congregation’s 90th anniversary and at the same ...

His mother died when he was a baby and his father, a quarrelsome ... bringing and taking away spices, jewels, songs, prayers, slaves and stories. These ever-repeating cycles of arrival and ...

A Defence Forces chaplain who was repeatedly stabbed by a teenage boy motivated by "a radicalised Islamic mindset" today told ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. History’s first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated many conservatives with critiques of ...

Most eccentrically, and rewardingly, the movie is a kind of musical: Even the vampires are handed a couple of numbers, twisting sweet Irish ballads into unholy cult prayers. When characters aren ...

She was born in Savannah, Georgia, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation in 1925 and learned the basics of the Baltimore Catechism from the Irish Sisters ... and her beloved father died from ...

The representative of the Holy Father in Nigeria has called upon Christians to respond to persecutions and killings targeting ...

Sligo native Mr Conlon was due to marry the mother of his two children – and become official stepfather to two more – when he was lured to his partner’s father’s house in ... according to his brother ...

The Church of England’s most senior bishop has recalled how meeting the Pope and saying the Lord’s Prayer together “changed ...

Lord Jesus, you have called Pope Francis to yourself. Thank you for the gift of his papacy. When he was with us, he tirelessly showed the Church your constant mercy toward sinners. Grant him now your ...