Mary KennyLaw interfering in business is far from tactful, writes Mary Kenny
Month: November 2014
Don’t negatively categorise divorced people
Courtney McGrailDear Editor, I am writing following Mary Kenny’s article ‘Divorce-remarried and the plain divorced’ (IC 06/11/14) in which distinctions are drawn between people who are ‘’divorced-remarried’’ and ‘’plain divorced’’ i.e. not remarried. Also sympathetic treatment is encouraged for the ‘’innocent party’’. Divorce is a reality for many and I feel we should not be categorising…
House of Prayer is faithful to Church
Dear Editor, Cathal Barry’s article “Church should excommunicate House of Prayer founder – claim” (IC 30/10/14) was an outrageous attempt to cause sensationalism on such a serious issue. Excommunication is a word not to be invoked lightly. It denies the person the sacraments, especially Holy Communion. To use this word merely to create a sensational…
Parents slow to encourage vocations
Dear Editor, Your editorial (IC 30/10/14) stated that there has been a lacklustre approach to promoting priestly vocations in recent years and that sleepy parishioners have not encouraged vocations. I wish to state that Catholic parents have been rudely awakened in recent decades and are increasingly aware of the troubled realities within the priesthood. Catholic parents value…
A year on from Typhoon Haiyan
Tacloban city is getting back on its feet after the devastation of last year’s super storm, writes Caoimhe de Barra
A sub-Saharan spring
Paul Keenan“Something old, something new.” Recourse to an age-old wedding rhyme by way of summing up recent events in troubled Burkina Faso is not as strange as it might first appear. Indeed, the concept of a happy marriage is certainly not one coming to the mind of deposed President Blaise Compaore as he licks his wounds…
Pope John Paul II Award in Cork
Mags GarganThe second annual Pope John Paul II Award, in Mallow Community Youth Centre, saw 62 young people from the Diocese of Cloyne, and one school in the Diocese of Cork & Ross, receive the award. The students were from St Mary’s Secondary School, Mallow; Patrician Academy, Mallow; Nagle Rice Secondary School, Doneraile; St Aloysius College,…
Marriage conference in Galway
Galway City hosted a conference on ‘Marriage in Irish Society’ which was organised by a new group, Real Marriage. It focused on the issues posed by a redefinition of marriage, with the upcoming referendum on same-sex marriage. Dr John Murray, of the Iona Institute, highlighted the differences between traditional and same-sex marriage. He pointed out…
An Irishwoman for all seasons
Nano Nagle continues to inspire today, writes Sr Mary O’Brien
Life is fragile and worth living
My terminal illness terrifies me, but it does not make me any less of a person, writes Philip Johnson