Will Enda Kenny treat traditional-minded voters with respect in next year’s marriage referendum or will he heap more contempt on them?
Month: December 2014
Pick of the Christmas season
Morning Movie: The Nun’s Story RTÉ 1, Sat, Dec 20, 7.55am (1959) Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch. Director: Fred Zinnemann. Gabrielle Van Der Mal gave up everything to become a nun. But her faith and her vows are forever being tested. In Concert: Sing Noel! A Christmas Concert EWTN, Sat, Dec 20, 11am & Christmas Day…
New resource encourages Christians to take action on climate change
Eco-Congregation Ireland (ECI) has launched a new resource to encourage Christians throughout Ireland to become more eco-aware and eco-active at church and at home. Climate Change – Can I Make a Difference? includes some of the latest environmental data as well as a comprehensive theological response to climate change, prayers for the environment and advice…
Vatican requests wide input on the 2015 family synod
To help set the agenda for the 2015 Synod of Bishops on the family, the Vatican is sending the world’s Catholic bishops’ conferences a list of questions on a range of topics, including matters of marriage and sexuality that proved especially controversial at the 2014 family synod. Together with the final report of the 2014…
Singing songs of peace
Mags Gargan speaks to members of a choir dedicated to spreading a message of peace
Availability of gluten-free Communion hosts
Dear Editor, We regularly hear biblical references to the ‘goodness’ of wheat, but for coeliacs wheat is not all it is cracked up to be. What are the chances of ‘no gluten’ or ‘low gluten’ breads being used for Mass? I have had challenging encounters both in Ireland and abroad as my teenage daughter and…
Remember your priest at Christmas
Dear Editor, It’s the season of giving, when we remember how God sent his son to live among us. The Church’s sacraments are administered to us by the hands of our local priests. Why not show them how much their sacrificial vocation and care is appreciated, with a card or small gift, e.g. book token/invitation…
Praying to win at sport
Dear Editor, in relation to your article on the female boxer Katie Taylor (‘Katie Taylor thanks God for world boxing title, IC 27/11/2014), are we to believe that God takes side in boxing competitions? That Christ approves the idea of girls punching the face off each other? To pray to God to win in any sport…
Replacing the God of power and might
Dear Editor, three years ago, the new more correct translation of the Novus Ordo Mass was introduced. Many of the changes have been accepted and commonly used here in Ireland. But it is so sad to see that the Irish generally have not been willing to give up the frightening image of a God of power…
Obey all the rules
Migrants should be acquainted with the law – it’s common sense

David Quinn
Brendan O’Regan
Mags Gargan
Courtney McGrail
Mary Kenny