The idea for the book originated from Pope Benedict’s “Letter to the Church in Ireland” (2010), in which ... and this is part of what it means to be a Catholic from a particular country.

The Catholic Church in Ireland must review its structures “to make sure that they are appropriate to the needs of the 21st century,” said Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran at his installation as ...

This provoked an observation from John Henry Bernard the Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin who said of the Catholic bishops that they were thoroughly disloyal and anti-British. More ...

Weigel’s analysis of the collapse of the Catholic Church in Quebec, Portugal, Ireland, and Spain, is interesting, but, I think, insufficient. He writes: In each of these cases, Catholic ...