The first saints were Christian martyrs who suffered agonising deaths. The standards for sainthood today are significantly ...

On the Sabbath, Jesus healed a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit, which angered the leader of the synagogue.

Ireland once had its own indigenous legal system, called Brehon law, originally written between the 7th and 8th centuries.

COMMENTARY: Popes from John Paul II to Francis have made clear that the Church cannot ordain women — yet some persist in ...

It’s the first time a European nation has enshrined a special place for a pagan religion ...

Holy water is a pretty regular feature at Catholic churches, so why were some commentators on social media in an uproar over ...

Put succinctly, the history of Halloween as we know it is a muddy, confusing collection of practices that probably owe more ...

Fiddle player, sean nós singer and presenter Doireann Ní Ghlacáin on growing up speaking Irish in Dublin, her hit podcast How ...

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Ben Graham looks back 45 years to a time when U2 were hungry young punks intent on carrying on Joy Division's mission ...

The Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kisumu has called on vocation animators to ensure that young people preparing ...

Strange faces with human features, elongated or flattened bodies: why don’t cats in medieval manuscripts resemble real ones?