Tag: Ireland
Ireland’s abortion rates rise 62% over 5 years; Catholic advocates call...
Abortions in Ireland spiked in the space of just five years, government figures have revealed.
Statistics released by the Department of Health in Ireland showed...
Illness or neglect? Controversy surrounds excavation of alleged final resting place...
A full excavation began July 14 at a site near a former mother-and-baby home in the west of Ireland, believed to be the final...
Michelle O’Neill becomes first Catholic prime minister of Northern Ireland: ‘We...
Ireland's most-senior churchman hailed an agreement that sees a Catholic take the top political job in Northern Ireland for the first time in its...
Irish priest removed from duties for controversial remarks about a gay...
DUBLIN -- A spokesman for Ireland's deputy prime minister referred to Pope Francis' famous line "Who am I to judge?" after a priest said...
Political leader John Hume, who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland,...
DUBLIN -- Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, has hailed political leader John Hume as a "paragon of peace" for his key role...
Irish commission: Grave for children was improper, but not a septic...
DUBLIN -- The commission investigating the historic treatment of unmarried mothers and their children in religious-run care homes in Ireland has dismissed claims that...
Irish bishops urge Catholics to ‘resist’ country’s new abortion law
DUBLIN — The primate of All-Ireland insisted that the country’s new abortion law that took effect Jan. 1 has “no moral force” and it...
Ireland agrees to reassess claims of workers in Magdalene laundries
DUBLIN — Women who worked in Ireland’s “Magdalene laundries” but were denied compensation under the state’s Magdalene Restorative Justice program have won their long-running...
Irish president signs abortion law
DUBLIN — Although Ireland's new abortion law takes effect Jan. 1, by mid-December only 8 percent of family doctors had signed up to provide...
Irish parishes hear about New Zealand model for Catholic Church renewal
THURLES, Ireland — A New Zealand cardinal told a conference on the future of parishes in Ireland that his diocese benefited from the appointment...