Dear Editor, With reference to the President’s call for an ethical reawakening may I call attention to the Gospel – Mt 5:17-37- read throughout the Christian world today. It is part of Jesus Christ’s Sermon on the Mount where he says he is not changing ‘one dot one little stroke’ of the Commandments.In the preamble…
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I am proud of my parish
Dear Editor, I would like to comment on the article on the parish of Sandyford, Kilternan and Glencullen. I am writing not just as a parishioner but also as chairman of a local soccer club Wayside Celtic FC which has over 500 members. I have never at any time over the years felt that the…
Pope Francis offers a great legacy
Dear Editor, In response to a letter, ‘Catholics, faith and the Francis effect’, (IC 16/1/14), the doubt was expressed, would people fall away from their faith when Pope Francis dies and is replaced by someone with perhaps different abilities. There is little doubt that Pope Francis’ powerful charisms have the ability to touch both Christians…
Attacked for defending traditional values
Dear Editor, David Quinn’s article ‘The new sectarianism’ (IC 27/2/14) highlighted the intolerance, verbal abuse, threatened physical abuse and media hypocrisy that has been displayed towards him and The Iona Institute in recent months. I share his point that hate and threats of violence have no place in public debate and I defend his right…
Sri Lankan prelate demands answers over mass killing
Prayers for 80 victims buried together
Noah’s flood and God’s covenant with man
In the history of biblical archaeology, as it developed during the Victorian era, no episode is more remarkable that the discovery made by George Smith of the British Museum in 1872. On a clay tablet from the royal library of Nineveh he deciphered a much older Mesopotamian version of the flood story familiar from the…
Group think has no place in an ethical society
Dear Editor, It is not just pro-life groups but all of us that should be concerned that most of our main political parties reject the notion of allowing for a freedom of conscience in voting on such social issues as abortion. Sinn Féin like others before, lost an opportunity to be seen as a party that…
RTÉ is in a no-win situation on the gay debate
Dear Editor, Regarding David Quinn’s article, ‘The chattering class and its enemies’, (IC 13/2/14). He complains of no counter-balancing interviews on RTÉ in the euthanasia debate. May I direct his attention to The God Slot of Friday, October 18, 2013, on RTÉ Radio 1, which was acknowledged by no less an authority as Brendan O’Regan as…
We should celebrate our Baptisms
Dear Editor, As Church we are enriched enormously through the gift that is the leadership and inspiration of Pope Francis. However, a gift is useless unless we accept, embrace and utilise it to the full. In realising the fullness of that giftedness, we will be aware that Pope Francis himself points us to the giftedness…
The value and relevance of Latin
Dear Editor, What an excellent piece on Latterday Latin Classics by your books editor (IC 20/2/14). But I have to disagree with your editor that Catholic lovers of Latin see the language only as a way of preserving religious tradition. A knowledge of Latin is also vital to understanding the source of English words, such…