The small, run-down playground with its swings and football goalposts could be in any town. But it is in Tuam, in the west of Ireland, and its concrete and grass conceal evidence of the horrors ...

This July 11, 2025, photograph shows Niamh McCullagh, a forensic expert, standing on the site in Tuam, Ireland, where she is leading efforts to exhume the remains of children buried at the former St.

Crime scene experts and forensic archaeologists in Ireland will excavate and try to identify the remains of over 800 infants who died at a Catholic church-run home for unmarried mothers. An ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Iris ...

Excavations have begun at a former church-run home in Tuam, Ireland, where 800 children may be buried. The home closed in 1961; a mass grave was found in a sewage system in 2014. Experts will study ...

Pope Leo XIV declared St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church, also declaring the saint co-patron with St. Thomas ...

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has called last week’s funeral Mass for Irish musician Shane MacGowan a scandal. “It was an abuse of what the Mass is and what the Catholic funeral liturgy is all ...

The Catholic faith has, for decades now, been waning in what was once a devout stronghold of the faith, but a new survey is suggesting that Ireland may soon experience a sort of Christian revival, ...

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has called last week’s funeral Mass for Irish musician Shane MacGowan a scandal. “This is an abuse of the liturgy. It’s sacrilegious. A requiem Mass is not for ...