A court heard at the weekend how a Dublin priest managed to disarm a potential thief who threatened him with a syringe when he confronted him stealing from a church poor box. Fr William Fitzpatrick, parish priest of Mary Immaculate Oblate parish in Inchicore, challenged Mark Pierce for taking €20 from a donations box in…

Dear Editor, May we ourselves be the change we wish to see in the Church and indeed the world? Too often we want to change only that external to ourselves, and to seek “inclusivity” only to facilitate our own exclusive opinion and positions, and may indeed while calling for inclusivity, be quite exclusive and self-centred…

Dear Editor, The forced expulsion of Iraqi Christians from their homes by ISIS is a great human tragedy and should not be happening in the 21st Century. It is a great crime and humanitarian disaster. It should be strongly condemned by all right thinking people who believe in religious freedom and democracy. ISIS ideology is…

Dear Editor, Thanks to The Irish Catholic for Martin O’Brien’s insightful interview of Francis Campbell, who has taken over the leadership of London’s St Mary’s University.  As an Irishman, Mr Campbell follows in the footsteps of many great Irish Vincentians most notably Fr Kevin Cronin and Fr Des Beirne. One aspect of Mr Campbell’s campaigning…

Dear Editor, I also share Mr Kieron Wood’s concern (Letters, Aug 7) that words such as “consubstantiation” would not be understood by ordinary Massgoers, but he can rest assured that it doesn’t appear in the new translation of the Ordinary Form of the Mass.  The question now is should Mr Wood seek ‘forgiveness’ or ‘remission’…