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, 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, 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…

Dear Editor, In your edition of 8th may, Syl Doyne (IC 8/5/14) raised the question as to why the Church canonises saints since all those who go to Heaven are saints. An answer can be found in Lumen Gentium 50 of Vatican II: "When we look at the lives of those who have faithfully followed…

Dear Editor, Marriage and society are being re-defined. Those who do not accept homosexual behaviour as normative are legally being forced to embrace the rationalisation or be silent in the face of it. Those who oppose homosexual acts are being labelled homophobes and it is these that are becoming the victims of hatred. What better…

Dear Editor, What a sad convergence of news Ireland’s faithful faced last week. Hot on the heels of criticism levelled by the former National Coordinator for Diocesan Vocations, Fr Paddy Rushe, (IC 22/5/14) on an apparent lack of Church focus on promoting vocations came news of the closure of All Hallows College after 172 years…