Dear Editor, I was delighted to read that two missionaries and an overseas chaplain are being honoured by President Michael D. Higgins for their “distinguished service” (IC 03/09/2015). Missionaries have devoted their lives to the service of others and have achieved the most incredible things in the field of medicine, education and human rights in…

Dear Editor, The abortion industry in the US has been thrown into turmoil as secretly taped videos showing Planned Parenthood (PP) officials haggling over the price of body parts from aborted babies have gone viral on Youtube. The mothers of the aborted babies were not informed about their dead babies organs being sold. In one…

Dear Editor, During my pilgrimage to St Patricks Purgatory in June this year I was given permission to carry out a questionnaire about the three-day pilgrimage for my theology dissertation. If any of The Irish Catholic’s readers have recently or in the past experienced the pilgrimage and would be kind enough to complete a questionnaire…

Dear Editor, I grew up hearing the name Paddy Ruschitzko. I never knew then that he was the son of a Polish father and an Irish mother. I also remember hearing that he captained the Laois team that beat Kilkenny in the 1949 Leinster final, playing left half-back where he marked the legendary Jimmy Langton.…

Dear Editor, I was in Rome in 1960 when Archbishop Walsh of Tuam contacted Msgr Dominic Conway, Spiritual Director at the Irish College, to arrange for a new set of statues for the Shrine at Knock. It was an exciting challenge and I was delighted to join him on a trip to Carrara in the…

Dear Editor, The international abortion provider Planned Parenthood has been caught on camera, by investigative reporters, offering aborted baby body parts for sale. By any measure, this massive human rights scandal is a news story. Not in our Irish media it seems, who have studiously ignored and buried Planned Parenthood’s activity. The Irish Family Planning…

Dear Editor, In the article on Hiroshima in the August 13 edition of The Irish Catholic (World of Books), I was disappointed that the miracle which saved the group of priests who were in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped was not mentioned. The presbytery was demolished, but the priests were not affected and suffered no…

Dear Editor, I am going on 95 years and looking at the sad stories that are being discussed in our world today, I want to remind Catholics of our wonderful past over 2,000 years and the dictators that tried to undermine our Church. In my time Stalin got into power and immediately got rid of…

Dear Editor, Educate Together CEO Paul Rowe claims that giving preference to children who live in a school’s catchment area could be unfair to non-Catholic children from further away (IC 27/08/2015 ‘Divesting Catholic schools could result in segregation’). Does he not see the irony in this? ‘First come, first served’ admission policies, as favoured by…

Dear Editor, The plug has been pulled from the continent of Africa and the flow of humanity from there to Europe will never end until the rich world realises that it is the cause of a situation so dreadful as to cause the people to risk their all, their families, their homes, their money, their…