St. Patrick
Who was St. Brigid and why is she inspiring many 1,500 years after her death?
By Peter Smith — January 29, 2024
The commemorations come a year after Ireland began honoring her with an annual public holiday — the first Irish woman to be recognized with one.
The ‘Splainer: Who was St. Patrick, and would he drink green beer?
By Kimberly Winston — March 17, 2016
(RNS) March 17 is St. Patrick's Day. But was there a real St. Patrick? Did he drive the snakes out of Ireland or use the shamrock to explain the Trinity? Why should this fifth-century priest be remembered at all? Let us 'Splain.
QUIZ: Do you have shamrock superpowers? 7 questions to test your St. Paddy’s know-how
By Kimberly Winston — March 12, 2015
(RNS) Think St. Patrick's Day is all about green beer and leprechauns? Meet the man behind all the revelry.
Catholic school to sit out St. Pat’s parade because gays will be marching
By Reuters — March 2, 2015
BOSTON (Reuters) "We can't associate with that," Brother Thomas Dalton, principal of Immaculate Heart of Mary School. "It would appear we were condoning it."
Gay groups in St. Patrick’s parade all right with N.Y. Cardinal Dolan
By David Gibson — September 3, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) After years of resistance, a group of gays and lesbians will be allowed to march in the St. Patrick's Day parade for the first time under their own banner, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan said he's OK with that.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t march in St. Patrick’s Day parade
By Lauren Markoe — February 4, 2014
(RNS) New York Mayor Bill de Blasio won't march down Fifth Avenue in the city's famed St. Patrick's Day parade because he opposes organizers' ban on marchers holding gay pride signs.
‘Ask an Atheist’ event replaces participation in St. Patrick’s Day parade
By Sally Morrow — March 18, 2013
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (RNS) Among the constant flow of people wearing green, toting beers and milling around the bars in Kansas City’s Westport neighborhood on Sunday (March 17), a man in a red plaid kilt held a sign that said, “Kiss me – I’m a Left-handed, Red-headed, Kilt-wearing Irish Atheist Stepchild!” The Kansas City Atheist […]
Artists painstakingly transfer sacred stained glass windows
By Tracy Gordon — March 30, 2012
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) For nearly a century, the stained glass portrait of St. Patrick looked down on parishioners -- as if from the heavens -- from the massive nave of the sacred Heart church in this city's Vailsburg neighborhood.
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