Irish-American Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York celebrated Mass at a “Mass rock” in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, during a pilgrimage with roughly 40 people from the Archdiocese of New York on ...

The Bronx’s Woodlawn neighborhood will once again echo with the Irish language as the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Gaelic societies, and local parishioners gather for the 8th annual Irish Language ...

This July 11, 2025, photograph shows Niamh McCullagh, a forensic expert, standing on the site in Tuam, Ireland, where she is leading efforts to exhume the remains of children buried at the former St.

Crime scene experts and forensic archaeologists in Ireland will excavate and try to identify the remains of over 800 infants who died at a Catholic church-run home for unmarried mothers. An ...

In Ireland, where religion has played such a big place in its past, for better or for worse, fewer and fewer people are attending mass on Sunday, and even less are willing to commit themselves to the ...

This year's wrap-up to the weekend's Irish festival also coincided with the Feast of the Assumption, a major Catholic Church holiday honoring Mary. The main celebrant of Sunday's outdoor Mass at Emma ...

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has called last week’s funeral Mass for Irish musician Shane MacGowan a scandal. “It was an abuse of what the Mass is and what the Catholic funeral liturgy is all ...