It is difficult to pin down a singular position by Irish Canadian Catholics in their response to events unfolding in Ireland between 1912 and1922. Irish Catholic Canadian views were often subject ...

IrishCentral contributor Mary Ryan recalls the incredible lengths her family and community went to for this rural celebration ...

The Catholic hierarchy’s statement to the electorate underscored the social and moral concerns that should shape voters’ ...

To coincide with the first day of Advent, tomorrow Sunday 1 December, Bishop Fintan Monahan of Killaloe, the delegate of the ...

Pope Francis is coming to the Republic of Ireland in the wake of two referendums which illustrate a country moving away from its traditional Catholic roots. Church and state were once deeply ...

The current strength of anti-clericalism in Ireland should surprise no one much, if only because of the influence that the Catholic Church exerted over the nation through such a long period that ...

In some Irish Catholic circles it generated hostility and resentment. The difficulty for the Vatican was that Pope Benedict XV had advance notice of the Rising. In March 1916 Joseph Mary Plunkett ...

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