Dear Editor, Over the past couple of weeks, I have read numerous articles in relation to the recent controversy surrounding Maynooth seminary. These have included speculation regarding the priesthood and what form it should take in this time. There are some who believe that our more recently ordained priests are of a more traditional mindset…
Category: Opinion
Denying environmental degradation akin to ‘flat Earth’ devotion
Dear Editor, Interesting that there exists in many countries branches of an organisation known as: The Flat Earth Society. They believe that it is possible to fall off the edge of the world and vanish into emptiness. They base their belief it seems, at least in part, on the Gospel instruction where the Lord commanded…
Rehousing the Central Catholic library
Dear Editor, Peter Costello has written a fascinating article (Preserving the Catholic Library for another Century IC, 25/8/16) about the Central Catholic library. I have a long association with the library (indeed, I was one of the many UCD students who availed of the library’s treasures in the 1960s and 1970s). Although I am not now…
Well done, Mary Kenny on coverage of abortion issue
Dear Editor, Well done to Mary Kenny for dissecting the claim that a trip to an abortion clinic is ‘so very ordinary’ with details of some of the horrors of the abortion industry. She gives Minister for Health, Simon Harris a mention too. I wrote to the Irish Times questioning Minister Simon Harris’ congratulations to…
Moves to ban the burkini are excessive and counterproductive
David QuinnThe row is a flashpoint between conflicting values, writes David Quinn
The bias of RTÉ’s programming
Courtney McGrailDear Editor, RTÉ recently gave great prominence to anti-Catholic programmes; Last Orders denigrated the religious orders and Legion of Christ on the disgrace of the founder of the Legionaries of Christ. These programmes were well flagged and advertised in advance and given a prominent slot after the 9pm news. However, the pro-Catholic programme on Bishop…
Searching for a world without limits
Fr Ronald RolheiserWhen I was a child there was a popular song whose chorus repeated this line: “Everyone is searching for Utopia.” And we all are. Every one of us longs for a world without limits, for a life where nothing goes wrong, for a place where there’s no tension or frustration. But it never happens. There’s…
The road to Hell is paved with a plethora of bad intentions
Dear Editor, Fr Rolheiser in a convoluted article (IC 4/8/16), has given us his version of Hell, and on reading it I am wondering are we both in the same Church. Much of what he has written is contrary to what I had always believed. For clarification I turned to the Catechism of the Catholic…
Human life isn’t an arbitrary value
Dear Editor, All human life is sacred. The child in the womb is human life. Therefore the life [of the child] in the womb is sacred. The above piece of simple logic is the reason why I and many, many others believe that abortion is always wrong. It is the reason why we believe that…
Literature worth reading is worth sharing
Dear Editor, There was a time when Catholics would read magazines or pamphlets and having been impressed by what they read would leave the article at the back of the church for others to read. Now some parish priests clean out their churches once a week so that there is nothing to pick up or…