Irish Catholics

To This Partisan Irish Catholic, More Change We Can Believe In

Mary Lyon | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics


Mary Lyon

I've learned over the past several decades to be relentlessly and sometimes ruthlessly partisan. However, watching Ted Kennedy's tribute-cum-wake at the JFK Library, I found myself changing.

Ireland: Catholic Child Abuse Reports In Future May Be Censored

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 08.31.2009 | World


DUBLIN — Ireland's next report into the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church might be censored or delayed because its publication coul...

Kevin McDaid Murder Investigation Yields 10 In Custody

Irish Evening Herald | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


Police in the North have released two of the 12 people arrested in connection with the sectarian murder of Kevin McDaid in Co Derry on Sunday night....

Ireland To Demand Catholic Church Pay Additional Reparations For Child Abuses

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 06.26.2009 | World


DUBLIN — Ireland's government announced Tuesday it will summon Roman Catholic orders and demand they contribute more funds to the thousands of p...

New Sex-Abuse Scandal Divides Irish Catholics

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 01.23.2009 | World


DUBLIN, Ireland — Ireland's most prominent Roman Catholic leader, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, questioned Tuesday whether all of his fe...