The survey highlights divided public sentiment toward religious figures, with attitudes toward priests and nuns split evenly: 33% view them positively, 33% negatively, and the rest remain neutral.

Fr. Bochanski of Courage International said, “Surely there are other ways that the state can protect people from harm without so widely chilling honest conversation and compassionate pastoral care.” ...

The citizens of Ireland voted recently, in a nationwide referendum, to remove a clause from their constitution that had made blasphemy a criminal offense. Despite its recent defeat, Ireland’s 2009 ...

Research in both the US and Ireland shows that more and more people are not identifying with any religion. Secularization in the US “shows no signs of slowing,” Pew Research said this month after ...

What’s it like to be a Latter-day Saint in the Emerald Isle? On a trip last week to Dublin and Belfast for a conference, I learned a bit about that by interviewing Hazel O’Brien, a lecturer in ...

Religious identification has historically been salient in Northern Ireland as an ethnic-national identity marker. Thirteen years after the Good Friday Agreement that marked the start of the peace ...

Both shows eschewed the easy path of gloating over the challenges facing the institutional church. Mr. O’Hanlon carefully reflects on his own ambiguous relationship with faith and his need for the ...

(AP) — The peace that came with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago has periodically threatened as Catholic and Protestants remain segregated in many ways. BELFAST, Northern Ireland ...

Laurence Cooley receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The results of the 2021 Northern Ireland census have been released and they show that 42.3% of the population identify ...

BACK IN ACTION after a lapse of three years, Northern Ireland’s shaky government rests on a compromise so ingenious that it would impress a medieval theologian trained to argue over angels and ...

Legitimate religious practice could fall under a too-broad ban on “conversion therapy” backed by LGBT activists in Ireland and Northern Ireland, critics have said. Fr. Phillip Bochanski, executive ...