Andy Burnham is removing a Victorian-era law that singled out Catholics and Jews. Why now?
House of Commons fast-tracked a Bill related to the prime minister’s religion
Catholic Church
When words fail, we still turn to the priest to find them
In some of the loneliest moments of our lives, we trust in the wisdom of a priest, born of years spent attending scenes of human devastation
Fr Dougal Maguire hit on an under-recognised truth about faith and religion
Catholic theologian and philosopher Tomáš Halík argues that the difference between belief and non-belief is not as great as you’d think
Landmark Irish Catholic assembly backs further discussion on women’s ordination
Archbishop Eamon Martin tells delegates at Co Meath gathering that many Irish parishes will struggle to survive
The ‘Irish pope’ who was equally disliked by Irish patriots, Protestants and Britain
Rite & reason: When Clonliffe was sold, Cullen’s remains had to be moved. This was done quickly and discreetly on the morning of June 25th 2021
Women in ministry among main issues at historic Irish Catholic assembly
Among proposals is that the Church seeks a ‘more respectful and life-giving vocabulary’ on LGBT+ people
Pope Leo leaves hospital after lung cancer surgery
Pontiff will lead prayers from his Vatican apartment in St Peter’s Square on Sunday
What is the Department of Education’s plan for primary school consultation?
The department committed a year ago to drawing up best-practice guidance but says now only that 'work is ongoing'
Eamonn Casey did good as well as bad
Trócaire has and continues to save the lives of thousands of people in the developing world
Pope Leo’s cancer diagnosis tests the assumption of a long papacy
Leo suddenly faces the same sense of urgency and questions of longevity that had hung over his predecessor
Dublin’s Liberties bells ring after 20 years’ silence following revival project
‘You don’t have to be musical and it is not complicated; you just need to do simple things well,’ says veteran bell ringer
Fr Eamonn refused to buy pints for me in London, long before his reputation was shredded
The ebullient young priest who had impressed me so much is now dead
Pope Leo says he will undergo surgery for small growth on lung
The 71-year-old pontiff said the growth was detected at an early stage and was well-contained, with recovery expected to take about a week
Meet the former garda who found a new role in the Church of Ireland after retirement and divorce
Meet Mike Buchanan ... ex-garda and Catholic, a pilot, divorcee and now Church of Ireland rector in south Dublin
Role of women, married priests and sexuality featured early in the synodal pathway
Rite & Reason: Not everything we heard in those early conversations has travelled through the process in the same way
Alleged victims of paedophile priest may seek winding up of school if damages not paid
Lawyers threaten petition against St Colman’s College in Newry over alleged abuse by paedophile priest Malachy Finegan
Funerals are the only aspect of Catholic life I engage with any more
Every time I’m in a church and listening with adult ears, I’m struck by the reality that religion is a response to fear
New papal nuncio likely to continue radical downsizing of Catholic dioceses in Ireland
Polish nuncio succeeds Archbishop Montemayor, who oversaw some of most radical changes in 900 years
Without Distinction of Sex review: A cautious approach to what should be a radical call for change
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Veronica Coburn asks what happened to the promises about women’s place in the State. But her demands are disappointingly modest
Lourdes! The Musical: An impressively complex tale of shame
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Xnthony is a long-time cabaret subversive. Rarely has he been sentimental
Conservative Catholic US university in Waterford former monastery faces planning questions
Ave Maria University, established by Dominos founder Tom Monaghan, plans to ‘form future saints’
An archbishop and three priests walk into a Manhattan restaurant ...
My mother would never miss Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s programme
Putting faith in religion in a country ‘open to everything except for God’
One brave man’s beliefs led him to make principled stand against Ireland v Israel football match
DPP appeals former priest’s ‘unduly lenient’ sentence for sexual abuse of his three sisters
Paula Fay, Catherine Wrightstone and Yvonne Crist voiced concern over term imposed on Richard Brennan
Called to the church: ‘I broke her heart but I felt I could do more for people by being a priest’
Fr Tiernan Burke, who is 41, is one of just two priests ordained in Maynooth seminary this year
Is Ireland still a place ‘open to everything except for God’?
Public professions of faith induce a kind of culture cringe in post-Catholic Ireland. But when someone like Katie Taylor tells us what they believe, the least we can do is listen
Grandson of Roscommon emigrants and famous Catholic TV host beatified in Missouri
Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who inspired actor Martin Sheen to take his name, became a household name in US through his broadcasts
It is difficult to describe the seething rage I felt watching The Lost Children of Tuam
Any Irish person who sees the film will likely have some connection to Ireland’s shameful institutions; my grandmother was an ‘inmate’
Irish media talks about death ‘constantly’, Irish Hospice Foundation study suggests
A ‘national conversation’ on dying, death and bereavement is being held in Croke Park on Thursday
‘Lourdes is like a holy Blackpool or divine Las Vegas. We’re not in angelic land’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Writer Xnthony’s new musical was transformed by the illness and death of his best friend
Liam Neeson: ‘I got angrier and angrier. I’m an Irishman. I was an altar boy. But I was horrified’
The actor on The Lost Children of Tuam, his film about Catherine Corless’s uncovering of hundreds of deaths at the town’s Bon Secours mother and baby home
Catherine Corless: ‘I was always a bit determined. I was teased a lot growing up’
The historian on her difficult upbringing, how it feels for your life to be adapted for the screen, and why Trump’s visit to Ireland made her angry
The last Irish nuns in Africa: ‘There was no question of going home’
Missionaries occupied a unique place in Ireland’s national imagination. For young Irish women, religious life offered something rare: independence, education and travel
‘He was only 88’: There is a cosy familiarity to Irish funerals
Rite & Reason: The Irish do funerals well. It’s a cultural phenomenon, writes journalist Molly O’Reilly
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