Former Irish President Mary McAleese. (Credit: Colin Keegan/Collins Agency.) Listen The rhetoric of wall-building and border controlling has dominated the political cycle on both sides of the Atlantic ...

Christianity, no matter what form it takes, has now become unacceptable to the political and media establishments. Moyne Abbey in County Mayo, Ireland, was destroyed during the reign of Queen ...

Take a week out to trace St. Patrick’s footsteps and explore Ireland’s Christian tradition. You might not be able to drive the snakes out of the country, but you can at least learn about the man, the ...

While Saint Patrick is often credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland, historical evidence tells a different story. Decades before Patrick’s mission, a bishop named Palladius was sent by the ...

Sometime in the mid 4th century, an elderly priest living on the coast of Ireland took up his pen. “I, Patrick,” he began, “a sinner, the most rustic and the least of all the faithful, and in the ...

Last week, Ireland voted to legalize same-sex marriage by a large margin. For a country with a history of staunch cultural Catholicism, one that just a few years ago approved divorce by only a few ...

Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, speaks with Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney, far left, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson following a service to mark the ...

Put the Bible back into society and let’s clearly stress that we are a Christian island – that’s the challenge thrown down to ...

Leaders of Ireland's Christian churches vowed to face "difficult truth" and work closer together to ensure that the fragile peace process in Northern Ireland leaves a lasting legacy of reconciliation.