Cathal Barry‘The money could easily be reallocated to housing, education and healthcare’
Month: June 2014
Weekday Masses face being axed
The issue was addressed by the bishops at their summer meeting in Maynooth last week.
Church can’t be stingy with God’s mercy
Fr Ronald RolheiserToday, for a number of reasons, we struggle to be generous and prodigal with God’s mercy. As the number of people who attend church services continues to decline, the temptation among many of our church leaders and ministers is to see this more as a pruning than as a tragedy and to respond by making…
Homeboys’ hero
Paul KeenanFr Greg Boyle SJ works among the gangs of Los Angeles
Coverage of the Tuam babies story
Dear Editor, I thought David Quinn’s piece on the Tuam story (‘Dealing with the issue of unwanted children’ IC 12/6/14) greatly helped to keep things in perspective. While there’s no question that the uncovering of the mass grave was shocking and disturbing, I feel as if the media was quick to sensationalise the story without…
The value of a Catholic press
Dear Editor, Over the past weeks I read, listened to and viewed the relentless and horrendous reports on the Tuam babies. And then I read the coverage of the same story in the pages of The Irish Catholic this June 12. Well done to the staff of your newspaper and thank God for a Catholic…
Baby deaths were no secret to earlier governments
Peter CostelloIn light of the Tuam babies issue, Peter Costello consults the public record
Tuam babies are valued by God
Dear Editor, As the shock waves abound, concerning the revelation of the mass grave of babies in a Church-run institution, once again, I clutch my Bible to my heart and cherish – with every fibre of my being – the precious and infallible Word of God. One of my favourite Psalms is Psalm139: “For it…
Queen honours Derry teacher
Colm FitzpatrickChemistry club pupils at St Mary’s College, Derry congratulate science teacher, Ann Blanking, who has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours listfor services to education in Northern Ireland. Photo: Stephen Latimer
Pope prays for Iraq
Pontiff following events closely