Dear Editor, There has been much talk in Catholic Church circles about next year’s planned referendum to permit same-sex marriage. Can I be alone in looking towards the referendum campaign with trepidation? Recent months have shown that there is very little temperance in Ireland when it comes to public debates about sensitive moral issues. Undoubtedly,…

Dear Editor, Mags Gargan ( IC 27/2/14) is to be congratulated upon her timely and useful guide for couples getting married; it contains much which will aid, I feel, to the importance of the occasion.  One of those useful guides was the month, weekly and finally daily, check list of what to do; however, with one…

Dear Editor, Fr Rolheiser’s article on Mother Teresa, God’s purity arrives in the darkest of nights (IC 20/3/14) was hard to take. In my life I have struggled with my own weaknesses to try to follow the way of Jesus Christ. I have found him to be my companion and guide but I also recognise…

Dear Editor, I am writing to you about the 40 days for life prayer and fasting campaign continuing to Easter Sunday outside the Marie Stopes abortion referral centre on Berkeley Street Dublin 7. This is the fourth year that we have held this event and it has proved to be a very successful spiritual occasion.…

Dear Editor, the appointment by Pope Francis of Marie Collins to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is wonderful news. Mrs Collins has been a powerful and courageous voice who has spoken not only for herself, but on behalf of those who cannot speak out about their experiences. The setting up of the…

Dear Editor, I expressed concern, in a recent letter to The Irish Catholic, in relation to the (former) Catholic ethos of Saint Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. Since then, Professor President Brian Mac Craith of DCU, speaking in Drumcondra on  Friday February 28th 2014, has stated categorically that by 2016 Saint Patrick’s College, Mater Dei Institute, and…

Dear Editor, Prompted by the Irish Catholic 6 March front page report on Cardinal Brady's desire to see our Church reach out with compassion to the divorced, I ask why here in Ireland do we need to wait for the results of the October synod? Although at the moment divorced and remarried Catholics are unable…

Dear Editor, The British government now realises that same-sex ‘marriage’ will require a massive rewrite of legislation dating back to 1285. Over 2,000 laws referring to marriage have to be changed at a cost of many millions of pounds and all to support a whim of David Cameron who is determined to push gay ‘marriage’…

Dear Editor, I have waited patiently for someone in authority to point out that it cannot be lawful for same-sex couples to enter into a contract of marriage, unless, of course, they plan to change dictionaries as well as the law. The legal definition of marriage is strictly a contract entered into between a man…

Dear Editor, Local and European elections fast approach. Voters should scrutinise carefully the plethora of candidates, parties and ideological agendas now presenting themselves in search of votes. Among them will be pro-abortion parties and campaigners. We must vote pro-abortion parties and candidates out of office at every opportunity and vote for politicians who are unashamed…