Catholic Church Remains Quiet During Ireland's Fierce Abortion Debate Voters in Ireland will go to the polls Friday for a referendum that ... I was born in 1969 in a mother and baby home in Cork.

Last year, 15 men were ordained as Catholic priests for the entire island, with 5.6 million people (4.2 million of them Catholic). In the Anglican-linked Church of Ireland, a fraction of the ...

With decreasing vocations, priests in Ireland are also spread thin, with 2,116 priests serving at 2,650 churches or Mass centers. And more than a third of Irish priests are over the age of 60.

Even after decades of Ireland’s rapid societal secularization, encouraged in no small part by a brutal procession of the church’s self-inflicted wounds, clergy and laypeople have cause for ...

The Catholic Church was a “net winner” from the Great ... Prof Breandán Mac Suibhne of National University of Ireland, Galway told the West Cork History Festival in Skibbereen that it ...

In 2021, a survey by the Association of Catholic Priests found that only about 30% of Catholics in Ireland attend Mass weekly — a significant drop from 91% in 1975.