Dear Editor, I am delighted to see that the St Vincent de Paul Conference in Galway is reaching out to gay people. The charity is based on helping the most vulnerable in our society. Can any Christian person seriously argue that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are not vulnerable, particularly given…

Dear Editor, Fair play to the women of the Killaloe diocese who are standing up in opposition to the permanent diaconate. (Diaconate sparks discrimination row in Killaloe’, IC 4/9/2014). The International Theological Commission in Rome under the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger left the question of female deacons open, yet the Church in Ireland – having ignored…

Dear Editor, It’s good to see Bishop Martin Drennan starting to stand up for the Catholic faith. Maybe this will catch on among members of the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland. A story was told a few years ago that a chill came in to a meeting of the bishops’ conference, but had to leave because…