Dear Editor, In relation to Fr Eugene Kennedy’s letter on boring sermons (IC 26/02/2015): A young priest was replacing an older man, who said to him: “These parishioners are a funny lot. They don’t like long sermons.” So the young priest starts his sermon and after 4/5 minutes a “hallelujah’’ came from the congregation. The young…

Dear Editor, In St Brigid’s church, Belfast, Cardinal Turkson said that the duty of a Catholic politician is to reflect the joy and transforming power of the Gospel. Sadly, as shown by David Quinn’s comment piece (IC 05/03/2015 Nationalist parties are alienating Catholic voters), that is lacking in the nominal Catholics of both Sinn Féin and…

Dear Editor, It seems to me that the media could be descripted as ‘hetrophobic’ towards people that disagree, however minutely, with them and the gay agenda. Fair is fair – if they want freedom of speech for themselves, they have to allow the same for others as well. Yours etc., Brid Fitzpatrick, Terenure, Dublin 6W.  

Dear Editor, I share Margaret Hickey’s position opposing abortion, (IC Letters 26/02/2015) but not her judgment of President Obama. Jesus Christ set down fundamental criteria by which people will be judged in Mt 25.31-46, “I was hungry and you gave me food” etc. One of these is “I was sick and you took care of…

Dear Editor, I have no doubt that there is a huge number of people in our country who like me would disagree with the proposed referendum change to marriage. Unfortunately many of these same people will do nothing practical about it and hope others will do the work. In the last referendum, less than 40%…

Dear Editor, Lately it has become customary to discredit the existence of God by claiming that an all merciful, all loving God would never allow suffering in the world. This is an approach taken recently by Stephen Fry and even the great naturalist, David Attenborough, remarked that many people often ask him why he doesn’t attribute…

Dear Editor, The new postage stamp is, perhaps, a useful reminder of what any government will do to ensure that “its” amendment to the Constitution (of the people) is carried (IC 12/02/2015 ‘Pro-same-sex marriage stamp is criticised’). Supreme Court judgements have commented adversely on public money being spent by the Government on the Divorce Referendum,…

Dear Editor, It is disappointing if not unexpected that the IHREC have refused to respond to reservations on their policy on access to same-sex marriage. (IC 26/02/2015 ‘IHREC refuse to respond to accusation of ‘misleading’) Their position on access to civil marriage was arrived at (per their website) after ‘’reviewing human rights and equality standards…

Dear Editor, We in the Legion of Mary in Abbeyfeale would like to reinforce what Fr Patrick O’Donovan wrote in your letters page 19/02/2015. (‘We should go back to using the word matrimony’) In, fact we intended to write to you in a similar vein. The traditional definition of marriage is “a contract between two…

Dear Editor, On the evening of March 11 I will take a stand against media bias, when hopefully many will turn out for the Pro Life Campaign’s 33 to 1 event. (IC 26/02/2015 ‘Pro-lifers accuse media of ‘blatant’ bias in campaign’) For the last number of years I’ve been sickened by the constant liberal left…