Dear Editor, Re: Bro. Malachy Buckley and his question asking why we have not got women priests (Letters, IC 22/09/2016), in the West/Latin Church, the priest acts, especially in the Eucharist, in persona Christi (in the person of Christ). This, a precious gift bestowed on the male apostles, to act as Christ, a male in…
Category: Opinion
‘Repeal the Eighth’ campaigners want to hide behind a slogan
“Campaigners who are pushing abortion should be honest about what they want”, writes Michael Kelly
My alternative suggestions for saving the planet
Mary Kenny gives her opinion on how we could live more healthy and environment friendly lives
Pope wants the Church to be both a teacher and a pastor
“Pope Francis takes a different view as to how Jesus’s teaching should be applied in very particular cases”, writes David Quinn
An unfortunate comparison
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…
No good can come from applying labels to children
“Human life is not some consumerised product… whereby only those who pass the test of being ‘chosen’ may be regarded as admissible”, writes Mary Kenny
Ploughing through the numbers
Greg Daly examines a recent survey of religious belief and practice in the farming community
Creating software, moral formatting and living in sin
While I was doing graduate studies in Belgium, I lived at the American College in Leuven. On staff there at the time, in the housekeeping and maintenance department, was a wonderfully colourful woman whose energy brought oxygen into a room but whose history of marriage somewhat paralleled that of the Samaritan woman in John’s Gospel.…
Wrong for remarried Catholics to receive Communion
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…
Sniffing out new bishops is a papal priority
Pope Francis has entrusted nuncio’s with the important task of finding candidates who are ” managers, but pastors”