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…

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 –…

Dear Editor, I write to commend The Irish Catholic on its recent front page story regarding this year’s Mass to commemorate the sacrifice of those who fought during the 1916 Easter Rising (1916 families appeal for Mass ban to be lifted, IC 1/5/14). I was shocked to hear that the families of those who fought…

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,…

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?…

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…

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…

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.