Dublin’s new Catholic archbishop tells flock: ‘I want to hear from you’ Bishop Dermot Farrell is installed as the new archbishop of Dublin in St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, on ...

Dublin’s new Catholic archbishop at installation Mass: ‘I come to you with hope in my heart’ Archbishop Dermot Farrell prays in St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, on Feb. 2, 2021.

When Pope Francis lands in Dublin on Saturday morning, he will encounter a much-changed land to the one that gave predecessor John Paul II a euphoric welcome nearly four decades ago.

The remains of Ireland's first cardinal and architect of the Catholic Church on this island were removed from Clonliffe College in Dublin this morning and reinterred at the Pro-Cathedral crypt in ...

But secular Ireland is also walking, ever so slowly, away from the church and its mores. In 1996, the last Magdalene asylum -- on Sean MacDermott Street -- closed in Dublin.

Ireland is excavating a mass grave where nearly 800 infants are believed to have been buried in a septic tank behind a home for unwed mothers.

KNOCK, Ireland — Pope Francis issued a sweeping apology Sunday for the "crimes" of the Catholic Church in Ireland, saying church officials regularly didn't respond with compassion to the many ...