Courtney McGrailDear Editor, Two questions for those who consciously or unconsciously have a pro-abortion mentality in general: 1. Why do you want to kill an unborn child? 2. What basically constitutes the bottom line between a child one second before birth and being born? Answer (without any intention at trivialisation): Location, location, location. No other element…
Month: October 2016
We need plain facts of what constitutes life
Dear Editor, How can we live in a society where a man like Donald Trump is permitted to berate the world with his bigotry, let alone run for presidency of a so-called ‘superpower’? Trump reminds me of the drunk who torments punters down the local, spouting out nonsense and ignorance that nobody wants to hear.…
Haiti struggles in hurricane’s wake
A child cries while being treated at a cholera treatment centre on October 9 after Hurricane Matthew swept through Jeremie, Haiti. Photo: CNS
Pope Francis makes 17 additions to the College of Cardinals
Pope Francis will conclude the Year of Mercy by creating 17 new cardinals, including three from the US: Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago; Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the new Vatican office for laity, family and life; and Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis. Announcing the names of the new cardinals on October…
High stakes for Canada’s Bishops in euthanasia row
While having dinner recently with my former producer, Bernie Lucht, the Montreal Jewish intellectual and onetime head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship intellectual affairs programme, Ideas, he looked across the table at me and asked plaintively why the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops was being so callous with the dying. Bernie had confused the…
Christians in the eye of the storm
Paul KeenanThe Church sees no division in a disputed land, writes Paul Keenan
Brexit fears were so predictable
Dear Editor, Your front page story ‘North feels “forced out of EU” by Brexit, Bishop warns’ (IC 6/10/2016) was as predictable as it is alarming. The concerns Bishop Donal McKeown expresses about and on behalf of ordinary working class people in Derry and elsewhere in the North following Britain’s vote to quit the EU give…
Denying the worth of a human being
Dear Editor, Tim Kaine, the Democratic candidate for US Vice-President, claims he is personally opposed to abortion but he does not think that he should impose these views on others: “I am personally opposed to affronts to life, such as abortion, but I will not advance that view through law.” This is also the prevailing…
Elected representatives should show sensitivity
Dear Editor, I could not agree more with Michael Kelly’s editorial comment (IC 6/9/2016) that “what is hidden by badges proclaiming Repeal the Eighth is the horror of what the phrase actually means”. Some political parties and even the Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone TD, seem to be oblivious to how provocative it can be…
We need plain facts of what constitutes life
Dear Editor, How can we live in a society where a man like Donald Trump is permitted to berate the world with his bigotry, let alone run for presidency of a so-called ‘superpower’? Trump reminds me of the drunk who torments punters down the local, spouting out nonsense and ignorance that nobody wants to hear.…