The author with Irish Catholic roots may have had a complex relationship with Ireland yet echoes of Irish influence run through his works ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, vowed on Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace ... Leo appeared to choke up when the two potent symbols of the papacy were ...

On "Preach," Anthony SooHoo, S.J., draws on unexpected images from Celtic Christianity in his homily for Pentecost, Year C.

Pope Leo XIV officially opened his pontificate as history’s first American pope on Sunday, presiding over an inaugural Mass ...

Nationalists try to chip away at the symbols of partition ... not have the right to vote for an Irish president. (One man, one vote – but only if you are Catholic.) Nationalists see a united ...

Ice hockey in Belfast is a spectator sport with no deep history on either side of the Protestant-Catholic conflict. It’s a ...

“It felt like a watershed moment, a breakthrough after decades of hard-won fights by people who had been campaigning for this ...

An organization tracks down the Jewish heroes of World Wars I and II, and honors them with the symbol of their faith, even ...

Shortly before midnight on May 23, 1798, highwaymen just north of Dublin intercepted and set on fire a mail coach headed to ...

Pope Leo will have the challenge of following in the footsteps of the late Francis, whose popularity saw him dubbed ‘the people’s pope’.

A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...