Dear Editor, Chris Jezewski (Letters IC 22/09/2016) says that in order to avoid “confusing the perpetrators with the victims” of the Nazi concentration camps, your paper should not say the camps were in Poland, instead saying they were in “German-occupied” Poland.  I don’t think this is necessary, and would go so far as to say…

Dear Editor, I refer to Mary Kenny’s article in The Irish Catholic, ‘Mrs May’s boost for faith education’ (IC 15/09/2016). Whilst pleased to be learning of the details to changes in religious schools in Britain, I felt uncomfortable with the comparison made between the child of an ophthalmic surgeon sitting next to the child of…

A small Catholic church in England had a celebrity surprise last week when Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg arrived for Mass, fresh from saving the world in his latest blockbuster. Currently filming the fifth instalment of the Transformers series in England, Wahlberg left the set to attend Sunday Mass at St Aidan’s Church in Seahouses. Depth of faith…

Irish Capuchin archivist Dr Brian Kirby and Dublin diocesan archivist Noelle Dowling point out historical documents to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin at the September 24 launch of ‘Ministry, Advocacy and Compassion – The Catholic Church and 1916’, an exhibition at St Kevin’s Chapel in Dublin’s pro-cathedral.