Father Gorman reflected, too, on the authentic traditional Catholic celebration ... our cultural identity as Irish people, our faith, our ethnicity and all of these things kind of came together ...

Yet according to Ms. Ní Argadáin, the rise in New Age marriages alongside the steep drop in Catholic weddings suggests a continued desire for spirituality among young Irish people, even as their ...

The Catholic Church in Ireland evangelized and educated its own people first and provided the first organized educational infrastructure for a society that previously had none. The monasteries ...

Though he wasn't the first Catholic minster to visit Ireland ... Patrick returned to Ireland to spread Catholicism. People in Ireland have been celebrating St. Patrick with special churches ...