As with many who went on to become saints, Mother Teresa also experienced darkness and suffering, writes Andrew O’Connell
Category: Opinion
D’Arcy makes my blood boil
Courtney McGrailDear Editor, Ray D’Arcy’s blood was boiling as he listened to David Quinn on the Clare Byrne Show. Maybe now he understands how many of us felt, when he allowed the views of Richard Dawkins and Ruaírí Quinn to go unchallenged on his own recent programmes. Yours etc., Brendan Daly, Longford, Co. Longford.
Muslims more than ever need our support
Fr Ronald RolheiserThis is not a good time to be a Muslim in the Western world. As the violence perpetrated by radical Islamic groups such as ISIS, Al Qaeda and Boko Haram becomes more and more prevalent, huge numbers of people are becoming paranoid about and even openly hostile towards the Islam religion, seeing all Muslims as…
There’s something about Mary
Dear Editor, I found Martin O’Brien’s article, ‘There something about Mary’ (IC 12/11/2015) most intriguing. Mary McAleese describes herself as being “more comfortable with the chaos of debate than in the festering suffocation of silence”. These are two extremes. Pope Benedict XVI described reason as one of the two wings – the other being faith…
Eucharist in the economy of salvation
Cathal BarryThe Church teaches that at the Last Supper Jesus gave the Jewish Passover its definitive meaning, writes Cathal Barry
Make your vote count for future generations
Dear Editor, Shortly your readers will be asked, on their doorsteps, at polling booths and media debates, to elect a government which will shape Irish society for our children. Aggressive secularists in politics and media are now pushing their secularist values into schools in order to secularise coming generations. If you do nothing, they will…
After Paris: violence and the human condition
We can’t allow different agendas to deflect from the deeper questions about violence, writes Dr Con Casey
The Catholic Church does not support corporal punishment
Dear Editor, Mary McAleese has many welcome things to say in her interview (IC 12/11/2015). However, she would appear to be in error in the matter of corporal punishment of chwildren. You report her as saying in the interview, “I have raised the Church’s support for corporal punishment of children which is set out in…
Religion being banished from all our screens
David QuinnA new ‘secular prudery’ wants to ban religion from public view, writes David Quinn
Advantages to being a small country
Dear Editor, I found myself thinking the same thing as Mary Kenny when I first heard of the terrorist attacks in Paris, and later in Bamako, Mali and the lockdown in Brussels – Ireland, count your blessings (IC 19/11/2015). In times like these I thank God that I live in a small, insignificant country! Yours…