Dear Editor, There has been much talk in Catholic Church circles about next year’s planned referendum to permit same-sex marriage. Can I be alone in looking towards the referendum campaign with trepidation? Recent months have shown that there is very little temperance in Ireland when it comes to public debates about sensitive moral issues. Undoubtedly,…

Dear Editor, Mags Gargan ( IC 27/2/14) is to be congratulated upon her timely and useful guide for couples getting married; it contains much which will aid, I feel, to the importance of the occasion.  One of those useful guides was the month, weekly and finally daily, check list of what to do; however, with one…

Dear Editor, Fr Rolheiser’s article on Mother Teresa, God’s purity arrives in the darkest of nights (IC 20/3/14) was hard to take. In my life I have struggled with my own weaknesses to try to follow the way of Jesus Christ. I have found him to be my companion and guide but I also recognise…

Dear Editor, I am writing to you about the 40 days for life prayer and fasting campaign continuing to Easter Sunday outside the Marie Stopes abortion referral centre on Berkeley Street Dublin 7. This is the fourth year that we have held this event and it has proved to be a very successful spiritual occasion.…

Dear Editor, I have waited patiently for someone in authority to point out that it cannot be lawful for same-sex couples to enter into a contract of marriage, unless, of course, they plan to change dictionaries as well as the law. The legal definition of marriage is strictly a contract entered into between a man…