Dear Editor, Reporter Greg Daly quoted me in his September 23 article (‘Irish Bishops urged to adopt divorce-Communion policy’) about giving Holy Communion to divorced and remarried Catholics. His incomplete reference gives the impression that I approve of this practice. I emphatically do not.  It is wrong for someone who is living in a state…

Dear Editor, The comments of Frs Gerry O’Hanlon and Gerald Murphy in your article ‘Irish bishops urged to adopt divorce-Communion’ (IC 22/09/15) have been extremely helpful in making sense of what Pope Francis’ recent comments on the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia mean in reality. I have read articles elsewhere arguing that the Pope lacks the…

Dear Editor, I must confess myself baffled by last week’s letter from Chris Jezewski headed “Auschwitz camp was not ‘in Poland’” (IC 22/09/2016).  Mr Jezewski argues that Auschwitz was not “in Poland” since Poland was occupied during the period when the camp was engaged in its murderous work. Indeed, in stressing that the area around…

Dear Editor, Chris Jezewski (Letters IC 22/09/2016) says that in order to avoid “confusing the perpetrators with the victims” of the Nazi concentration camps, your paper should not say the camps were in Poland, instead saying they were in “German-occupied” Poland.  I don’t think this is necessary, and would go so far as to say…

Dear Editor, Bro. Malachy Buckley is quite right to mention Mary, the Mother of God and the most important woman who ever lived, and Mary Magdalen (IC 22/09/2016). It is all the more significant, therefore, that Jesus did not invite any women to the Last Supper, but just ‘the twelve’ – including the traitor, Judas…

Dear Editor, I refer to Mary Kenny’s article in The Irish Catholic, ‘Mrs May’s boost for faith education’ (IC 15/09/2016). Whilst pleased to be learning of the details to changes in religious schools in Britain, I felt uncomfortable with the comparison made between the child of an ophthalmic surgeon sitting next to the child of…

Dear Editor, I was amazed to read your front page story last week, declaring that ‘Divorced/remarried Catholics can now receive Communion’ (IC 15/09/2016). The story below the headline was scarcely less amazing. I appreciate that the circumstances under which the Argentine bishops envisage allowing some Catholics who have civilly remarried followed civil divorces to receive…

Dear Editor, Recently it was reported that the number of Irish mothers going to Britain for abortions has dropped from 6,673 in 2001 to 3,451 in 2015. This was great news for all our pro-life charities, and hoperfully is for the right reasons such as chastity before marriage, fidelity within marriage, single mothers and others…

Dear Editor, Women were always looking after Jesus’ needs while he was on earth. Mary, his mother, looked after him until he was 30, and later stood by the cross.  On the first Easter the women went to anoint Jesus’  body but found his empty tomb, and a woman recognised him when he called her…

Dear Editor, Your front page headline ‘Divorced/remarried Catholics can now receive Communion’ (IC 15/09/2016) is inaccurate and gravely irresponsible. A (leaked) private papal letter cannot overturn the Magisterium of 2,000 years and the words of Jesus Christ himself (Mt 5; 31-32, Mt 7:6, Mt 19:2-12, Mk 10:2-12; Lk 16:18).  It is also uncharitable and unmerciful…