The issue of school divestment is being driven by a highly motivated minority within society, writes Colm Keaveney
Courtney McGrail
Preserving churches as places of silence
Dear Editor, One has to agree with Andrew O’Connell in his Notebook article (IC 06/08/2015) ‘Preserve churches as places of silence’. In many churches, groups in the congregation may be heard having a loud discussion before Mass, oblivious that they may be distracting others, as well as lack of respect for the Blessed Sacrament. There…
Only God can judge the value of life
Dear Editor, I write to express my welcome and support for the excellent article in your edition of 30/07/2015 by Fr Seán MacGiollarnáth on Amnesty International and that organisation’s support for widespread access to abortion. He expressed perfectly the inexplicable contradiction of a “human rights” advocacy group categorising unborn human life as worthy of protection,…
Revisionism of the Rising
Dear Editor, Felix M Larkin’s review of Joe Good’s Inside the GPO 1916: A First-hand Account in the issue of July 30 acknowledges the author’s vivid account of his experiences in the turbulent years from 1916 to 1921. He is rightly critical of Good’s seeming lack of compassion and regret for those affected by the…
‘Not in my Name’ argument doesn’t add up
Dear Editor, Does Niall Guinan’s reasoning in ‘Not in my Name’ (IC 30/07/2015) add up? Fittingly he says “The eighth amendment is an equality provision, protecting the most vulnerable human beings among us”. Planned Parenthood takes “the most vulnerable human beings” with a spark of divine being, kills them, takes the parts, “dead” in the…
On learning from young people
Dear Editor, Fr Peter McVerry states that the Church must learn from the young and focus less on the God of the law but on a God whose passion is compassion (IC 23/07/2015). I think very few of us would disagree in principle, but practically I am not sure what Fr McVerry is suggesting. Living…
Young prophets are those swimming against the tide
Dear Editor, Fr Peter McVerry states that young people who are uninterested in the Church or a “God of the law” are the prophets of today (IC 23/07/2015). As an oldie I welcome the “young prophets of today”. The young people who swim against the tide, who love Jesus, practise their faith, are pro-life etc.…
Francis’ papacy recorded in a book of quite magificent photography
Pope Francis: A Photographic Portrait of the People’s Pope by Fr Michael Collins, featuring exclusive photography by Rodolfo Felici (Dorling Kindersley, €28.00)
More on the Martyrs of Easter Week 1916
J. Anthony Gaughan Here are two further biographies in the “16 Lives Series” dealing with the leading figures executed after the 1916 Rising, both subjects are among the less well-known of those whose died. Con Colbert was born on October 19, 1888 in Castlemahon, Newcastlewest. Soon afterwards his family moved to Athea, where he spent his early…
The World of Books
The Books Editor “At exactly 15 minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and…