My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...

COUNTY MEATH, IRELAND—The Irish Independent reports that archaeologists led by Geraldine Stout have uncovered pottery; the bones of cows, sheep, cats, and dogs; seeds; nuts; a key; a timber dash-urn ...

A group broke into an Irish Carmelite monastery during the daytime, vandalized its chapel and shouted slurs at the elderly nuns who lived there on Monday. "The poor sisters who live there play such an ...

There is a flourishing community of young women dedicating their lives to God - we spend a day at Glencairn Abbey to find out ...

The 1990s bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill asserted that Irish monks, after the fall of the ...

A saint is one who exaggerates what the world neglects. —G.K. Chesterton Skellig Michael is a 700-foot-high pinnacle of water-and-wind-worn rock that rises like Excalibur out of the Atlantic waves ...

Ireland’s ancient ‘Island of Miracles’ remains closed following the COVID lockdown. The Lough Derg Monastery and St. Patrick's Basilica in Donegal, Ireland, are important places of pilgrimage to the ...

Even though a damp, gray drizzle fell from the sky, the line to see Trinity College's famous Book of Kells stretched out the door and onto the slick pavement. Luckily, the line moved quickly. I was ...