At the heart of Sinéad O’Connor’s new memoir is her sense of transcendence and her longing for it, as well as the depth of her religious imagination since childhood.

“Father Ted” can be seen as both a relic of an Irish moment and a humorous, but serious, argument against the confessional state.

Bloomsday is an ideal time to find the humor that springs forth in ‘Ulysses.’

A coroner in Northern Ireland ruled that a priest and nine lay Catholics who were shot dead by British troops almost 50 years ago were “entirely innocent” and their deaths were unjustified.

The Catholic bishop of Belfast urged politicians to be more careful about their language as the city was engulfed in nightly violence.

The two most recent selections by the Catholic Book Club couldn't have been more different: A look at Thomas Jefferson's quixotic attempt to rewrite the Bible, and Niall Williams's richly evocative novel about a small village in the west of Ireland.