ROME — A new online course has been launched to help the faithful rediscover the “beauty, meaning, and power” of the Holy Mass. Led by Italian liturgical scholar Aurelio Porfiri, the course aims to ...

To Ireland where today, excavations began at one of the country's most notorious mother and baby homes. These were homes for unwed mothers, also known as Magdalene Laundries, often run by the Catholic ...

TUAM, Ireland — Anna Corrigan thought she was an only child. It wasn't until she was in her 50s, researching her family tree, that she discovered a family secret: Corrigan found documents showing her ...

One of Europe's biggest mass graves is being unearthed right now. It's in Ireland, and the victims are children who died in a home for unwed mothers. NPR's Lauren Frayer begins our story in Dublin.

In 2012, after years of research, amateur historian Catherine Corless published an astonishing story in a local history journal detailing that 798 children had died at St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home ...

This week in Ireland, the Intercession for Priests ministry marks its 50th anniversary with Mass in Knock followed by a weeklong retreat at Maynooth led by Sister Briege McKenna, OSC. McKenna, who ...