Don’t overlook Ireland’s second city ... A welcome example is Triskel Arts Center, in a restored neo-Classical church in Cork’s center city, where guests settle into pews under a soaring ...

But the Ireland that greeted John Paul is no more. Francis arrives at a time of great challenge for his Roman Catholic Church. In the past 10 days, it has been rocked by a searing grand jury ...

MAYNOOTH, Ireland ... Church in Ireland is shrinking. In the future, the priests celebrating Mass in the Emerald Isle’s churches may well be from South America or Africa, not Cork or Kerry.

News from the Church of Ireland, which includes the dioceses of Armagh; Clogher; Connor; Cork, Cloyne and Ross; Derry and Raphoe; Down and Dromore; Dublin and Glendalough; Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh; ...