Dear Editor, Reading the bishops statement and Nuala O Loan’s article on racism, one must ask what racism is. Is it racism to ask why we are spending so much of our hard earned taxes on huge benefits for non-Irish when our own children are going hungry? Is it racism to ask why the money…

Dear Editor, The sadness surrounding reports on the Tuam mother and baby home reminds us all of our not too distant past. The public must consider the tragedy in the context of the country’s economic and social profile of the times. One wonders if the fathers of all these ‘unwanted’ children should have input into…

Dear Editor, Many are jumping on the bandwagon of condemnation of nuns for the alleged scandals of Mother and Child Homes from the comfortable Irish society of 2014. Ireland in 1925 and for many subsequent years was more akin to a third world country, a very impoverished State still suffering from a devastating civil war.…

Dear Editor, For Br Kevin Crowley, that quiet Capuchin champion of the homeless to feel compelled to write a letter expressing concerns at Ireland’s levels of homelessness truly shows how far we have sunk into disgrace as a nation (‘Homelessness at crisis point – Br Kevin Crowley’, IC 29/5/14). After 45 years operating the Capuchin…

Dear Editor, It is with a sense of outrage that I pick up my pen to write in response to the homelessness crisis highlighted by Br Kevin Crowley in your paper (IC 29/5/14). Have we learned nothing? Are we incapable of learning? As we continue in the cold embrace of the banking culture which is…

Dear Editor, The imminent demise of All Hallows College is regrettable, particularly given that my extended family were educated in part for the religious life in Drumcondra. The many foreign language students discommoded by the closure of five language schools in Dublin might offer the college board a lifeline. Having excelled at spiritual education over…

Dear Editor, The imminent demise of All Hallows College is regrettable, particularly given that my extended family were educated in part for the religious life in Drumcondra. The many foreign language students discommoded by the closure of five language schools in Dublin might offer the college board a lifeline. Having excelled at spiritual education over…

Dear Editor, When in Rome, Enda Kenny apparently invited Pope Francis to visit Ireland. Since then The Irish Catholic has been promoting the idea, ostensibly to assist the peace process in the North. Our Taoiseach and our anti-Catholic Government would welcome a boost to their re-election prospects in two years’ time but do they deserve…

Dear Editor, In a world and at a time when cyber-theft and warnings of same have us all of a dither, perhaps it’s time that we reclaimed the internet. It is, after all, a gift of the Holy Spirit and it’s time we use it and all technological advances for the good and praise of…

Dear Editor, Your issue of May 15 mentions the Pope's visit to Ireland in 1979. I had a tiny involvement in it, in that I am the father of one of the six young children of Aer Lingus staff who were chosen to greet the Pope when he arrived in Dublin on an Aer Lingus…