Courtney McGrailDear Editor, I found myself thinking the same thing as Mary Kenny when I first heard of the terrorist attacks in Paris, and later in Bamako, Mali and the lockdown in Brussels – Ireland, count your blessings (IC 19/11/2015). In times like these I thank God that I live in a small, insignificant country! Yours…
Month: November 2015
D’Arcy makes my blood boil
Dear 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.
Painting with light: Wilhelmina Geddes brought back to life
Peter CostelloWilhelmina Geddes: Life and Work by Nicola Gordon Bowe (Four Courts Press, €50)
Make your vote count for future generations
Dear Editor, Shortly your readers will be asked, on their doorsteps, at polling booths and media debates, to elect a government which will shape Irish society for our children. Aggressive secularists in politics and media are now pushing their secularist values into schools in order to secularise coming generations. If you do nothing, they will…
Muslims more than ever need our support
Fr Ronald RolheiserThis is not a good time to be a Muslim in the Western world. As the violence perpetrated by radical Islamic groups such as ISIS, Al Qaeda and Boko Haram becomes more and more prevalent, huge numbers of people are becoming paranoid about and even openly hostile towards the Islam religion, seeing all Muslims as…
When facing bad news, involve the whole family
Maria ByrneA Parent’s Perspective
World News in Brief
Vincentians call for end of APEC More than 500 protesters in Manila, including dozens of Catholic religious and other Christians, have called for the abolition of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. On the 21-country summit’s last day, protestors gathered and cried, “junk-junk APEC!” over and over. “I represent the Church stance of calling our leaders of our country not…
After Paris: violence and the human condition
We can’t allow different agendas to deflect from the deeper questions about violence, writes Dr Con Casey
We need Pope Francis to lead us on climate change
Ahead of a key world summit on climate change, Fr Martin Magill appeals to the Pontiff for courageous leadership
Journalists backed against Vatican clampdown
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has announced its support for Italian journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, who have been indicted by the Vatican, along with three others, for the crime of disseminating secret documents. “By writing Avarizia [Avarice] and Via Crucis [published in English as Merchants in the Temple] Italian journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano…