Dear Editor, Several newspapers have now drawn attention to the remarks of Mrs Sabina Higgins calling for the introduction of abortion. I am indebted to your letter-writer Ms Josephine O’Brien (IC 12/05/2016) for being amongst the first to do so. Some papers have downplayed the incident. One such paper headed its editorial “A word of…

Dear Editor, Further to the article by David Quinn in the May 5 issue ‘The Church must keep just war theory’, I wish to take issue with the defence of such a theory. With reference to how Hitler led the German aggressive invasion of Poland in 1939 and the subsequent World War II in which more…

Dear Editor, The Redemptorists in Ireland are celebrating the 150th anniversary of when the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help was given into their care for veneration. The icon has been taken to various parishes around the country, and questions have been raised about the ‘Marymobile’ carrying the icon being “paraded” on a tour…

Dear Editor, Sabina Higgins is not a private citizen, she is the wife of the President of Ireland and therefore everything she does and says must be viewed as a reflection on the office of the president. To express an opinion which falls on either side of an issue that will most likely be the…

Dear Editor, I was relieved to read about the intervention by the North’s Attorney General, John Larkin in the Ashers’ Bakery appeal case in Belfast (‘Appeal court is urged to overturn gay cake case’ IC 12/05/2016). Finally somebody is speaking sense! Mr Larkin said that if the Christian bakers were guilty of discrimination for refusing…

Dear Editor, I am utterly appalled at Sabina Higgins’ public comments that lack of access to abortion in Ireland in situations where the unborn child has a life limiting condition is an outrage against women, the world and nature. Mrs Higgins’ intervention is completely inappropriate and an abuse of the fact that the public elected…

Dear Editor, In Kieron Wood’s letter (IC 28/04/2016), he plucks a line from the Bible (Timothy 2.12) to support his argument against women deacons. St Paul, a great orator of his time can only (I think) be read in context with the times, customs and practices he lived in and also the unfortunate standing/treatment of females and…

Dear Editor, When I read the page 1 banner of last week’s The Irish Catholic (05/05/2016) ‘Just War Theory – Pacifism only works when everyone adopts it’, I said to myself “Here we go again!” That has the same faith logic as “Thou shall not steal/commit adultery” only works when everyone adopts the same standard!…

Dear Editor, I write as we mark Coeliac Awareness Week. Five years on from diagnosis, I could recount several episodes where I have returned from Mass exasperated and wondering how more complicated sharing in Holy Communion can get. Many queries and letters later, I am perplexed as to why there cannot be agreement and clarity…