Following the sexual-abuse crisis that badly damaged the Boston Archdiocese, a surge of committed, immigrant parishioners has ...

Catholic nuns and priests led Boston's anti-war movement during the Vietnam era. A new podcast, Divine Intervention, tells the story of the lengths many Boston Irish Catholics went through to ...

Boston College was founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) to educate Boston’s predominantly Irish, Catholic immigrant community. It opened its doors on September 5, 1864, in a building ...

Patrick Collins, another Irish immigrant success story, came to Boston after fleeing the famine in 1848 and became mayor in 1902, Quinlin said. He was the first Catholic congressman from ...

including the letters of families separated by the Great Famine and Boston Irish Newspapers, are digitized and can be found on the BC Library website. With BC’s founding rooted in the growing ...

“Here comes everybody.” Thus did Irish novelist James Joyce describe the Catholic Church’s diversity. That might have served ...

Any baptized Roman Catholic male can be elected pope, including archbishops like Boston's current Archbishop Richard Henning and former Archbishop, Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley.