Catholic Church

Fr Tiernan Burke, who is 41, is one of just two priests ordained in Maynooth seminary this year

Public professions of faith induce a kind of culture cringe in post-Catholic Ireland. But when someone like Katie Taylor tells us what they believe, the least we can do is listen

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who inspired actor Martin Sheen to take his name, became a household name in US through his broadcasts

Any Irish person who sees the film will likely have some connection to Ireland’s shameful institutions; my grandmother was an ‘inmate’

A ‘national conversation’ on dying, death and bereavement is being held in Croke Park on Thursday

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Writer Xnthony’s new musical was transformed by the illness and death of his best friend

The actor on The Lost Children of Tuam, his film about Catherine Corless’s uncovering of hundreds of deaths at the town’s Bon Secours mother and baby home

The historian on her difficult upbringing, how it feels for your life to be adapted for the screen, and why Trump’s visit to Ireland made her angry

Missionaries occupied a unique place in Ireland’s national imagination. For young Irish women, religious life offered something rare: independence, education and travel

Rite & Reason: The Irish do funerals well. It’s a cultural phenomenon, writes journalist Molly O’Reilly

The decline in numbers joining the priesthood means the prospect of there not being enough priests for funerals and other religious services is very real

Dermot Farrell says ‘young people have all but given up the hope of having a home of their own’

Rite and Reason: Toll extends beyond the courts, intruding on family life and the space survivors need for therapy and healing

Cork man Jimmy Linehan (90) wants the Catholic Church to remove the censures imposed on Irish people ‘since 1169’

Political will is needed to adequately invest in publicly funded services

Bishop Denis Nulty says crash ‘a sharp reminder that all of us share an enormous responsibility when we sit behind a wheel’

Iona Institute says falling birth rates account for about 60 per cent of decline, with secularisation accounting for the remainder

Irish Times analysis shows counties with the lowest demand for change are Monaghan and Longford

Rite & Reason: I think of what it must be like for the small number of men who are still in the Order now to have all this ignominy poured on them

Dancer and choreographer Edwina Guckian on The Devil’s in the Dancehall, how angry her research into the show made her, and the liberation of dance

Chapters in Gary Wade’s book study clusters of collections by Heaney, with Station Island the pivot around which the whole turns

Move to ‘preserve one of Dublin’s most important church buildings’ comes less than a year after its elevation

For philosopher William Desmond, being Irish is bound up with a ‘sense of doubleness’

But then, assertions of moral purity have always been selective and hypocritical

Congregation adopted controversial legal strategy in response to man’s allegation he was sexually abused by former member

Book is essentially a 400-page charge sheet of blunders and scandals that resulted from identity crisis in organisation

Rite & Reason: As John F Kennedy put it: ‘Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind’

Timely collection covers a range of topics from gothic fiction to poetry and women of the diaspora

Christian Politeness and Counsels for Youth was published in Dublin by the Irish Christian Brothers for the instruction of lower-class Catholic boys like me

Cork-based Jean Grainger writes Irish historical fiction books, popular in the US among the diaspora

The Irish Film Censor’s Office cut some of the greatest lines in cinema, to the dismay of the last censor, John Kelleher

Christian Brothers’ ‘morally bankrupt and totally unfair’ approach to victims criticised by judge in case of Liam Coughlan (90)

Family experience in Co Down brings Monty Python to mind

Fr Schmitz, the social media star, digital evangelist and Catholic chaplain, attracts youth groups, culture warriors and apolitical people seeking some form of healing at the National Stadium

Massgoers in Dublin share their views on immigration. For some, the issue is personal

Rite & Reason: A new mural at the cathedral was commissioned by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, retired archbishop of New York, and is by the American artist Adam Cvijanovic

Co Waterford native left a legacy of compassion and support for the vulnerable on Leeside

A timely first draft of history for future scholars examining Catholic Ireland’s eclipse

Television: The simple stories unpacked here depict an Ireland that has undergone huge upheavals

Truth Recovery Independent Panel says claims made against ‘Sister Z’, now deceased, merit ‘special attention’ at upcoming inquiry