One of the UK’s most senior Catholic leaders has appealed for prayers as he and other cardinals prepare for the secret voting ...

The Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope ... to deliver a financial prospectus to the new pope. The man Francis chose to bridge his papacy was born in the Irish ...

Guests at the Vatican service were told of the Pope's call to "build bridges", as Trump and Zelensky were pictured meeting ...

A man who kicked his girlfriend twice in the face ... The funeral mass for Mr Butler took place at the Church of the Most Holy Rosary in his native Midleton, Co Cork. He was laid to rest in ...

The news came as a shock to many on Monday morning, leaving people across Northern Ireland ... one of the most important dates in the Christian calendar. Father Gary Donegan of Holy Cross in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ... From Ireland to the U.S. The man Francis ...

It signifies the return of the light and widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, while May Day celebrations ... Water drawn from local holy wells at this time was ...

On April 20, 1954, Michael Manning, a 25-year-old man from Limerick, became the 29th and last person to be legally executed in Ireland ... Good Friday and it is our Holy Mother’s year.

A Free Presbyterian minister in Co Down has said that he makes no apology for stating that Pope Francis “was most certainly ...

“I remember, in the brief times I spent with him, how this holy man of God was also very human ... to inclusive and all-round development.” Ireland’s foreign minister says Francis ...