Courtney McGrailDear Editor, I was at Mass this morning and picked up the bishops’ postcard for Ireland’s Day for Life. I was dismayed to find Mary Robinson pictured on the postcard. Mary Robinson was for the legalisation of abortion as early as 1998. How in God’s holy name could our bishops use her as a symbol…
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Some like to live, work and preach with God’s compassion
Dear Editor, Since I am named in a recent letter in your paper, under the heading, ‘Some priests are openly at odds with Church teaching’, ( letter from C.D.C. Armstrong, Belfast, IC 20/10/2016.) I hope you might allow me a small space to reply. Indeed your correspondent expresses the hope that I will be censured…
A peculiar detail
Dear Editor, One of the most peculiar details in your troubling analysis of Veritas’ financial position (‘Veritas: kept afloat by the bishops’ IC 3/11/2016) is a passing reference to how 2014’s closing inventory was revalued after the submission of the 2014 accounts. If 2014’s closing stock was really worth almost €400,000 less than previously estimated,…
The real presence
Fr Ronald RolheiserWhen I was a graduate student in Belgium, I was privileged one day to sit in on a conference given by Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Brussels. He was commenting on the Eucharist and our lack of understanding of it full richness when he highlighted this contrast: If you stood outside of a Roman Catholic church…
The star of a president’s inauguration
Fr Martin Delaney reflects on a lasting conversation on a ‘cold sunny day in the US capital’
Pope’s Nordic noir
Dear Editor, It was interesting to see the Pope in Sweden this week to mark 499 years since an Augustinian monk from a small town in Germany nailed a set of heretical theses to the town bulletin board, in hope of starting a conversation about his new ideas. People with less education and training than…
People are ‘compelled’ to speak against deeply-held values
Dear Editor, The Ashers Bakery case in Northern Ireland has shown a depressing number of self-proclaimed liberals in a chilling and most revealing light. As you say in your editor’s comment of October 27, the North’s equality legislation was fashioned after decades of discrimination against the minority Catholic community, and it was never intended to…
Our resistance to love
There’s nothing simple about being a human being. We’re a mystery to ourselves and often our own worst enemies. Our inner complexity befuddles us and, not infrequently, stymies us. Nowhere is this truer than in our struggle with love and intimacy. More than anything else, we hunger for intimacy, to be touched where we are…
‘No’ to inter-communion ahead of unity
A Joint agenda for “prayer and renewed commitments to working together to help the poor and promote justice” builds bridges, writes Cindy Wooden
The marginalisation of faith in modern Ireland
Michael Kelly“Many parts of ‘official Ireland’ suffer from a combination of amnesia and blindness when it comes to faith”, writes Michael Kelly