Dear Editor, For all who now seek to live within the spirit of any faith, and most especially Christianity, and in particular within the Catholic denomination of the Christian faith, it is time for us to realise that it is grossly illusionary to think that the Spirit is in one with, or even compatible with,…

Dear Editor, Where did we go so wrong? We have now voted to give the State power to decide what marriage is. We, the Church, have failed fellow Christians and wider society, as many Christians have rejected the Gospel truths on marriage for a Marxist ideology. Not even the USSR or present-day China has managed…

Dear Editor, Noting the further slip in the influence of the Catholic Church in this country, I feel that we are being prompted to “make all things new”. The ‘new’ thinking could be to work more actively in bringing unity to the Christian Churches. Early enthusiasm for this work has waned. Each Christian Church has…

Dear Editor, I was impressed with what Fr Joe McDonald had to say (IC 38/05/2015 ‘Dublin priest lashes Church leaders on referendum’). May I say thanks to David Quinn and the many people like him who did great work in advance of the referendum. I am not very well educated in my Catholic faith but…

Dear Editor,  Fr Mannion (Letters, 28/05/2015) fails to notice the clear teaching of Jesus in Mark 10 that marriage is a natural union of male and female, substituting instead the ideas that men and women share equal dignity and “the ideal of marriage as a commitment for life”. Logically, his interpretations do not exclude the…

Dear Editor,  After the carnival (also described as ‘pentecostal’) celebration that marked the passing of the ‘yes’ vote in the recent referendum, it was interesting for me (who voted ‘no’) to react next morning feeling that nothing had changed – certainly for me. My views on homosexuality had in no way altered, nor was I…

Dear Editor, While I mourn the result of the same-sex marriage referendum I also think of the hard work put in by you and all the writers in The Irish Catholic. You rose to the challenge in the face of a hostile and biased establishment.   Considering the circumstances, the fact that the vote came in…

Dear Editor,  I was appalled at the attitude of Junior Minister, Aodhán O Ríordáin to changing the laws that help preserve the ethos of denominational schools of all religions. This is the man who once said that civil servants should not give any undue deference to churchmen. His cynical plan is to make the law…

Dear Editor,  Thank you for the consistent, clear and courageous leadership that was given to your readers during the referendum campaign. This was certainly not granted by everyone. Yours etc., Mrs Judith Leonard, Raheny, Dublin 5.

Dear Editor, So it seems the sale of Aer Lingus isn’t the only thing the Government can be accused of ‘ramming’ though the Dáil. I was disappointed to read in last week’s edition of The Irish Catholic that plans are afoot to strip Catholic schools and hospitals of one of the last tools they have…