Dear Editor, I write to commend The Irish Catholic on its recent front page story regarding this year’s Mass to commemorate the sacrifice of those who fought during the 1916 Easter Rising (1916 families appeal for Mass ban to be lifted, IC 1/5/14). I was shocked to hear that the families of those who fought…

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Dear Editor, Mary Kenny suggests that “the world-wide success…of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) makes this method of assisted conception awkward to criticise” (IC 8/5/14). How does the untold holocaust of human embryonic life sacrificed on the altar of this unethical interference with nature qualify IVF as a 'success'? Does the end now justify the means?…

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Christian forgiveness will be the subject of a roundtable gathering in Ballymena, Co. Antrim next week. Taking place at All Saints Parish, Cushendall Road, Ballymena on May 24 from 1.30pm to 5.30pm, the event is themed ‘In Faith through Forgiveness to the Future’ and will explore the true meaning of forgiveness for Christians and its…

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Peter Hegarty Writer and adventurer Tim Butcher set himself the task of getting inside the mind of an assassin, and has applied himself to it with verve, imagination, and a burning curiosity. He proudly recounts his discovery of the letters GP and a date, 1909, carved into a rock outside Princip's home village high in…

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Felix M. Larkin The idea behind this book is a good one and, as the editors – both well-known UCD academics – point out in their introduction, there is no convincing precedent for it in this country. They have sought, in their own words, “to come up with books which seemed to have had an…

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