HUNDREDS of people flocked to a historic abbey yesterday ahead of a ‘difficult’ closure. Mount Melleray Abbey in Waterford, ...

The regime at Our Lady of Silence will be removed from the austerities of La Trappe. The rules on diet, work and silence ...

Nuns are “terrified” to speak up and defend themselves against “unfair and unbalanced” portrayals of them in film and media, ...

IRISH priests have hit out at the way nuns who operated industrial schools, mother and baby homes and orphanages in Ireland ...

The Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) in Ireland said Religious Sisters are afraid to make their voices heard and ...

The first recorded Viking raid on Ireland was in AD795. This raid, on the monastery at Rathlin Island off the Antrim coast, was just the beginning of many years of Viking attacks on Christian ...

Over seven miles off the Irish coast, lie the sea crags of Skellig Michael, a breathtaking island once home to a community of reclusive monks. More recently, a different kind of hermit used it as ...