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, The Amnesty International report, which calls for the repeal of the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution (which recognises the equal right to life of mother and baby) and for the decriminalisation of abortion, is further proof that the organisation is no longer a human rights defender. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration…

Dear Editor, The Catholic Church in Ireland, we are told, suffered a slap on the face with the result of the marriage referendum. It needs a reality check, said the Archbishop of Dublin. Just a minute! Who voted in this referendum? Overwhelmingly those who voted for equal rights for a minority were Irish people, 85%…

Dear Editor, The catastrophic result of the recent referendum is paradoxically a wonderful opportunity to enlighten Irish Catholic life. I would like to make a specific suggestion that the teachings of John Paul II on the Theology of the Body be an excellent source material. By extension this would lead to discussing the whole meaning…

Dear Editor, The result of the recent referendum in Ireland has devastated me and everyone I have spoken to about it. I am Irish born and for the first time in my life I am ashamed of my country. On the feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, the college where I teach had a…

Dear Editor, Some secularists seem keen to curb conscience in public life. They would like to silence the vital voice of God within us. What did great thinkers have to say? According to Albert Einstein “conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state”. Mahatma Gandhi insisted “in matters of conscience the law of…

Dear Editor, Ireland woke up the world on May 22. Two-thirds of voters gave a resounding “yes” to legalise marriage equality. Health minister, Leo Varadker, called it a vote for “liberty, equality and love”. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin named it part of the ongoing “social revolution,” demanding “a reality check” for the Church. It suggested wider…

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…