It’s not your father’s Irish Catholicism. Attendance at mass is down, birth control is commonplace, and not one new priest was ordained last year in the Dublin archdiocese — which estimates that more ...

Maureen Dowd has singled out Irish Archbishop Diarmuid Martin as a "hero" in an Easter week which has seen very few heroes emerge from the Vatican. She'll probably get in more trouble for also ...

DUBLIN, Ireland — Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin harshly chastised Irish Catholic orders Monday for concealing their culpability in decades of child abuse and said they needed to come up with much ...

In the May 20, 2013 issue of America Archbishop Diarmuid Martin surveys the landscape of Ireland in wake of the church's sexual abuse crisis and the country's economic downturn. The archbishop's ...