Faith plays a vital role in her life, Irish actress Roma Downey tells April Clare Welsh

Mags Gargan visits the Irish birthplace of an extraordinary hero of the poor in New Orleans

After years of struggle, I have found a renewed faith, writes Paul McLoughlin

Diversity of patronage could make for a more divided school system, Joanna Tuffy warns Greg Daly.

The experience of the Eucharistic Congress should not fade into the past, writes Fr Bernard Healy

Niall McDonagh tells Cathal Barry about how his life experiences have led him to the seminary

Mary Ann O’Driscoll’s short life was a life distinguished by Gospel service, says Fr Thomas Casey SJ

The first American diocesan pilgrimage to Knock isn’t short on ambition, Greg Daly is told

St John Paul II described Our Lady’s Shrine at Knock as “the goal of my journey to Ireland” during his 1979 pilgrimage. The Pope said to the many pilgrims who had joined him at the shrine that “yours is a long spiritual tradition of devotion to Our Lady. “Your veneration of Mary is so deeply…

It was about seven on the evening of August 21, 1879, while it was still bright, that Mary McLoughlin, housekeeper to the parish priest of Knock, was on her way to visit the Byrne family who lived near the village church. Some distance away from the church she spotted an “extraordinary group” of figures by…