The Irish government announced Dec. 12 that starting in January, new arrivals from Ukraine would see benefits cut in a bid to discourage so-called "secondary movement" from Ukrainians who have already settled in other safe European countries with less generous benefits than
The University of Exeter, a cathedral town in southwest England, said the master of arts in magic and occult science -- which is described in a press release as "innovative" -- has been created following a "recent surge in interest in magic."
A pro-family campaign group has warned that a proposed March referendum in Ireland to amend the country's constitution would be a "further downgrading of the importance of marriage to society."
The Irish government announced Dec. 5 that it intended to ask the people
Catholic school leaders in Northern Ireland have called on parents to reject a plan by the British government that they say would "impose abortion ideology" on faith-based schools in the region.
Though Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom, it has been
Irish police blame what they describe as a "lunatic, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology" for a night of violence in Dublin that saw officers attacked, stores looted and public buses set on fire.
The dramatic scenes, which led to several officers being
A night of violence in Dublin that saw officers attacked, stores looted and public buses set on fire follows a stabbing attack outside a Catholic school that left three children and a teacher injured.
The Irish prelate credited with being among the first to tackle the clerical abuse crisis head-on said he did not believe there will be women priests in the Catholic Church in his lifetime.
He also warned that synodal consultations could lead to "frustrated
Once a Catholic giant, Ireland is becoming less religious, census data shows. Just over half of the residents of the Irish capital, Dublin, now self-identify as Catholic, according to data released May 30 by the country's Central Statistics Office (CSO).
The data forms
Twenty-five years after the Good Friday Agreement ended 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland, Church leaders say that while the treaty brought peace to the region, it also helped usher in an era where religious identity has faded and secularism has
In April, a new organization was formed to share information and devotion to Irish priest Father Willie Doyle, a chaplain during World War I who died trying to save two soldiers. In a new article for Our Sunday Visitor, Michael Kelly looks