LONDON – An Irish government Cabinet minister has told Pope Francis that the Catholic Church "should contribute substantially" to funding reparations for survivors of a former church-run orphanage ...

Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes will undergo "the most complex forensic excavation and recovery efforts ever undertaken" as part of new legislation. “What happened at Tuam is a stain on our national ...

FILE PHOTO: A children's playground now occupies part of the site of the former mother-and-baby home run by the Bon Secours nuns, next to where the remains of an unknown number of babies and toddlers ...

Priests in Ireland who die while facing accusations of sexual abuse are being denied "traditional Catholic funerals,” even if they weren't convicted during their lifetimes. The Association of Catholic ...

DUBLIN, Ireland - Two Irishmen have set up a business selling soil to nostalgic Irish-Americans who want a handful of "the mother country" on their graves. Pat Burke, 27, and Alan Jenkins, 65, have ...

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin, regarded as among the most influential church leaders in England and Ireland, has added his voice to those calling for an urgent inquiry into the discovery of ...

People hold up names of children as they gather to protest at the site of the former Tuam home for unmarried mothers in County Galway, during the visit to Ireland by Pope Francis, Sunday, Aug. 26, ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's government on Tuesday approved the exhumation and reburial of the decades-old remains of hundreds of babies left in unmarked graves at the site of a former church-run home ...

LONDON — An Irish government Cabinet minister has told Pope Francis that the Catholic Church ‘‘should contribute substantially’’ to funding reparations for survivors of a former church-run orphanage ...