For Archbishop Richard G. Henning, the apocryphal story that St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland would be the ...

Irish traditions were celebrated March 15 as Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez joined hundreds for the St. Patrick’s Day celebration ...

Inside, every pew was filled, with people standing shoulder to shoulder along the back walls for the parish’s annual St.

Montserrat treats the holiday as both a national celebration and a more somber milestone: a commemoration of a failed slave ...

The Mass is the traditional spiritual beginning of New York City's St. Patrick's Day celebrations, including the hourslong ...

Though the cultural landscape has changed, the enduring presence of faith in Irish life offers a reminder that traditions ...

How did St. Patrick's Day transform from a religious observance into the commercialized bacchanal we know today?

El Paso writer Lawrence Welsh remembers discovering Ireland during a 1975 visit to his mother’s ancestral home in County Tipperary.

Every March 17, a sea of emerald sweeps across the United States. Cities stage massive parades, rivers get dyed bright green and bars open early. Yet for all the festive fanfare, the origins of the ...

The Waterloo Regional Police Service says the sniper photographed at the St. Patrick's Day street party in Waterloo, Ont., on ...

Waterloo police said late Sunday that ‘mass casualty considerations’ were part of the weekend event's safety plan ...