Paul KeenanDear Editor, People who go irregularly to Church don’t know whether to sit, kneel or stand at a funeral Mass. Those who attend Church regularly, sitting behind and to their side, copy them. It is lacking in respect for the celebrant and regrettable that he is compelled to go to the microphone and request…
Category: Letters
Religion and the Irish Defence Forces
Dear Editor, I note with interest – and outrage – that the then Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, last year changed, without notice to other interested parties, the format of the annual commemoration of the 1916 Rising as reported, ‘1916 families appeal for Mass ban to be lifted’ (IC 1/5/14). I understand that the reason…
The sale of Jackie Kennedy’s letters
Dear Editor, Am I the only one unsettled by the proposal to sell personal letters penned to Irish priest Fr Joseph Leonard by the late Jacqueline Kennedy? (IC 15/5/14) As detailed in your own article, Mrs Kennedy died without leaving any record of her life as US First Lady, demonstrating clearly how she valued what…
Exemplary Christian lives
Dear Editor, I write in response to Syl Doyne’s letter (IC 8/5/14 edition) where questions were posed concerning sainthood. Firstly, there have actually been a large number of lay people canonised or currently en route to being canonised e.g. Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, St Gianna Molla (wife, mother and medical doctor), and Blessed Chiara Badano,…
The end does not justify the means
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?…
Relations between Ireland and the Vatican
Dear Editor, I wish to comment on Enda Kenny’s recent visit to the Vatican for the canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II. Mr Kenny stated that relations between the Catholic Church and the Irish State are now at a much better level than previously. It’s hard to believe this when you realise…
Voting for the right candidate
Dear Editor, In the short time left to polling day, I would like to urge as many of your concerned readers as possible to courteously engage with candidates or their canvassers on their attitude to the abortion legislation of last year as well as the Governments proposals on the matter of gay ‘marriage’. In regard…
You get what you vote for
Dear Editor, When we go into a shop, we get what we pay for. The same applies when we go into a polling booth; we get what we vote for. Yours etc., Seán Kelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry.
A dispute over numbers at the Vigil for Life
Dear Editor, Reading across the numerous media reports available following the May 3 Vigil for Life in Dublin, I was astonished to see the great variance in estimated numbers, from as low as 2,000 according to The Irish Times and has high as 15,000 form the Pro-Life Campaign. For the record, and having attended a…
I do not want to read about the ACP
Dear Editor, I very much enjoy The Irish Catholic newspaper and have been a subscriber for many years. However, I must take issue with certain articles appearing recently. I do not particularly wish to read about the likes of members of the Association of Catholic Priests and do not regard them as Catholic priests –…