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, 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…

Dear Editor, Well done, Bishop Brendan Leahy. Yes! Indeed, why not postpone Confirmation for young people until they are at least 16 years old! (IC 29/01/2015) Unfortunately, few of the parents or students who have given feedback on the issue are keen on this new idea: and the clergy, I’m sure, are shivering in their…

Dear Editor, Your correspondent from America, Michael W. Higgins, makes some extraordinary statements (IC 19/02/2015) from the point of view of anyone who sees President Obama first and foremost as a champion of abortion right up to birth, who not only defends his position when and where called for, but forces others not so minded…

Dear Editor, I cannot see how any Christian believer can accept same sex marriage without neglecting or rejecting what God has revealed about marriage: “Have you not read that the creator from the beginning made them male and female, and that he said: ‘This is why a man must leave father and mother, and cling…