Last Priests News Today

For Dearbhail McDonald, "The Last Nuns in Ireland" is both a personal and public attempt to make some kind of peace with a complicated spiritual and cultural legacy. 

A Question of Faith, Fr Liam Power’s Fortnightly Column for the Waterford News & Star

RTÉ aired two documentaries in January looking at the decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland: “The Last Priests in Ireland” and “The Last Nuns in Ireland.” But signs of hope can still be discerned amid the decline after years of church turbulence.

The parallelism between what has happened in Ireland and what is happening in Malta is glaring

Recent RTÉ documentaries on the Last Priests and Last Nuns in Ireland showed signs we are ready to embrace the positive contributions of the Catholic Church

On the face of it, the title The Last Priests in Ireland (RTÉ1, Monday, January 16) suggests we might be in for the kind of bone-dry, whisperingly solemn and self-important documentary the national broadcaster occasionally feels the need to inflict upon us.

Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming options.

I helped expose the grotesque hypocrisy of the Catholic church. But I owe so much to the nuns who formed me, says Irish journalist Dearbhail McDonald

Television: The compelling argument at the film’s core is that Irish Catholicism wasn’t all that Irish to begin with

The actor and comedian Ardal O’Hanlon talks to Aoife Barry about his documentary on the priesthood — its impact on society and what the future holds