Dear Editor, Your paper of September 4 printed an article by Mary Kenny on Gardai in Henry St, Limerick, flying a flag as a gesture for support for gay people (‘Embracing all causes’). How uncalled for and offensive was Mary’s comment describing Limerick as a city “notorious for its crime rate”. The media has already…

Dear Editor, Serious questions now arise for the National Management Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul following the revelation (IC 04/09/2014) that they appropriated substantial funds to an organisation (Amach! LGBT Galway) whose ethos furthers activities which are contrary to Catholic Church moral teaching. So far, the response from the SVP smacks…

Dear Editor, The legacy of the late Dr Ian Paisley has been the subject of much comment. A summing-up of the legacy from the Catholic point of view is that for 40 years, Dr Paisley assisted in stopping Catholics getting civil rights. Of course, he did so as the popular voice of deep feelings on…

Dear Editor, The €45,000 SVP grant pay-out to Galway LGBT will shock the many loyal, faithful Catholics who have supported the SVP and the poor with their money for decades. The LGBT lobby group is currently campaigning for same-sex marriage in Ireland, with men marrying men, women marrying women and same-sex adoption of children as…

Dear Editor, In pregnancy, Irish medicine has a long-held tradition of treating both patients: the expectant mother and her developing child. In the recent case of the young woman who was raped and became pregnant, she has suffered greatly. However, it is wrong to think that an abortion would solve the problem. Having an abortion…

Dear Editor, David Quinn’s article of August 28, “We won’t reach young people without being evangelical”, made important points about the importance of prioritising youth ministry. As a young person back in the 1980s, it was the work of young and not so young dynamic priests that influenced me most in terms of living the…

Dear Editor, I am appalled and deeply saddened by your headline in last week’s paper (04/09/2014) “Bishop demands answers from SVP on gay donation”. I feel we have stepped back into the 1950s when we had the Magdalene laundries, and the shame and disgrace heaped on the heads of the girls and families who found…

Dear Editor, In The Irish Catholic on 28/8/14, Archbishop Eamon Martin said “on matters relating to marriage and family, poverty and injustice etc, Irish Catholics must not be afraid to speak out with conviction in the public square”. I wish to say that surely Church teaching on marriage and family life includes parents loving and…

Dear Editor, I am delighted to see that the St Vincent de Paul Conference in Galway is reaching out to gay people. The charity is based on helping the most vulnerable in our society. Can any Christian person seriously argue that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are not vulnerable, particularly given…

Dear Editor, I read with shock – but hardly surprise – your front page article ‘Bishop demands answers from SVP on gay donation’ (IC 04/09/2014). It is further evidence of a pattern in Ireland that has seen Catholic organisations drift far away from Church teaching. No-one can object to the Society of St Vincent de…