Dear Editor, Your correspondent from America, Michael W. Higgins, makes some extraordinary statements (IC 19/02/2015) from the point of view of anyone who sees President Obama first and foremost as a champion of abortion right up to birth, who not only defends his position when and where called for, but forces others not so minded…
Month: February 2015
Pope is right about boring sermons
Dear Editor, Regards your front page story ‘Pope wages war on dull sermons’ (IC 12/05/2015). How right he is. And I too have been one of the guilty preachers. The late Fr Peter Lemass, while working with the Catholic Communications Institute of Ireland and Radharc, many years ago had a great line for aspiring preachers…
Restaurant calorie menus are unworkable
Healthy Living with Cathal Barry
Biblical teaching on marriage is quite clear
Dear Editor, I cannot see how any Christian believer can accept same sex marriage without neglecting or rejecting what God has revealed about marriage: “Have you not read that the creator from the beginning made them male and female, and that he said: ‘This is why a man must leave father and mother, and cling…
Fear stalks the teenagers of leafy suburbia
It Follows (16)
Rise of the Roses
A new initiative is encouraging young women to explore a vocation in religious life, writes Greg Daly
A priestly, prophetic and royal people
The Catechism lists a number of characteristics of the people of God, writes Cathal Barry
Primary school children too young for Confirmation
Dear Editor, Well done, Bishop Brendan Leahy. Yes! Indeed, why not postpone Confirmation for young people until they are at least 16 years old! (IC 29/01/2015) Unfortunately, few of the parents or students who have given feedback on the issue are keen on this new idea: and the clergy, I’m sure, are shivering in their…
More people are living to a ripe old age
Medical Matters with Dr Kevin McCarroll
Talking out our real problems in the parish
Hold Your Head Up High: Conversations about Controversies in a Catholic Parish by Fr Patrick Delargy (Shanway Press, £10.00; contact john@shanway.com)

Courtney McGrail
Cathal Barry
Aubrey Malone
Greg Daly
Dr Kevin McCarroll
Peter Costello