Courtney McGrailDear Editor, Ray D’Arcy’s blood was boiling as he listened to David Quinn on the Clare Byrne Show. Maybe now he understands how many of us felt, when he allowed the views of Richard Dawkins and Ruaírí Quinn to go unchallenged on his own recent programmes. Yours etc., Brendan Daly, Longford, Co. Longford.
Month: November 2015
There can be no more minimising of the abomination of abuse
Dear Editor, I have some concerns upon reading Phil Lawler’s review of the film Spotlight in his report ‘A feisty reporter’s book corrects for the Hollywood bias of Spotlight’ (IC 19/11/2015). Whatever about the agenda and hypocrisy of The Boston Globe there can be no lessening of the reality that the leadership of the Catholic…
Drama overshadowed by real life events
Brendan O’ReganThe ongoing terror crisis in Europe continues to captivate the media, writes Brendan O’Regan
There’s something about Mary
Dear Editor, I found Martin O’Brien’s article, ‘There something about Mary’ (IC 12/11/2015) most intriguing. Mary McAleese describes herself as being “more comfortable with the chaos of debate than in the festering suffocation of silence”. These are two extremes. Pope Benedict XVI described reason as one of the two wings – the other being faith…
Badfellas in crime-ridden Boston in the seventies
Aubrey MaloneBlack Mass (15A)
Couples supporting couples through marriage
Wendy GraceThere are many groups in Ireland where married couples are ministering to other couples in support of their vocation, writes Wendy Grace
Eucharist in the economy of salvation
Cathal BarryThe Church teaches that at the Last Supper Jesus gave the Jewish Passover its definitive meaning, writes Cathal Barry
Leading by example
Dear Editor, Regarding Catholics in second marriages etc. not receiving the Eucharist but identifying themselves as public sinners (sexual sinners) by crossing their arms before the priest, let us introduce a new practise alongside this. Let all celebrants at Mass who are in a current sexual relationship, heterosexual or otherwise, refuse, in public, to take…
When facing bad news, involve the whole family
Maria ByrneA Parent’s Perspective
‘Renounce our own violence’ – wisdom from a fresh grave
In the aftermath of René Girard’s death, websites poring over the Catholic intellectual’s work have been struck time and again by its timeliness. A patheos.com piece by Artur Rosman at ‘Cosmos in the Lost’, for instance, is getting a lot of traction. Addressing the issue of assisted suicide, Rosman quotes Girard as saying “The experience…