Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

IRELAND’S OFFSHORE ISLANDS have a unique and captivating history which goes back to the earliest evidence of life in the ...

Testimony in one 15 th -century manuscript records how a friar at Stamford was cured of his nosebleeds by dipping his testicles into cold water and vinegar. Another records the apparently successful ...

A Church of Ireland Rector in Clogher Diocese is undertaking a pilgrimage of a different kind by walking from his church in ...

A priest from Co Fermanagh is taking on a mammoth barefoot walk to Dublin to raise funds for a new community hub. The Revd ...

On St. Patrick’s Day, the vice president personally guided Dominican Father Henry Stephan through the presidential residence.

The story of an Irish priest kidnapped and tortured by military police in Argentina, along with a woman whom he would later marry, will feature in an exhibition on human rights violations being run in ...

Not widely known is that among those killed were five Irish Columban missionary priests, one of whom, Fr John Henaghan, was from Louisburgh in West Mayo. The others were Fr Peter Fallon, from Dunmore, ...

Between history, spirituality and legend, the figure of Saint Patrick, who has become a key element of a tormented Irish identity, tells the story of the slow Christianization of an island that has ...

During the six years he was enslaved, Patrick came to know and love the Irish people and their culture and he matured in his Christian faith. After escaping captivity, Patrick became a priest and ...

As far as Egyptian mummification goes, the process took a staggering seventy days. It was carried out by priests who would embalm, treat and wrap the body. Firstly, they had to remove the internal ...