Courtney McGrailDear Editor, In her article of October 6, ‘My alternative suggestions for saving the planet’, Mary Kenny praises fur coats, though creatures suffer misery for these coats. Pope Francis says “nowadays we must forcefully reject the notion that our being created in God’s image… justifies absolute domination over other creatures” (Laudato Si’ 67). Male chicks…
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Compile a single book of Church’s 1916 records
Dear Editor, The extracts from Fr Columbus Murphy’s personal account of the 1916 Rising (‘Mercy amongst the mayhem’, IC 20/10/2016) were absolutely enthralling, and a fine counterpart to the similar piece drawn from his fellow Capuchin Fr Aloysius Travers’ somewhat later account that you published last year in your 1916 special. At this point, as…
Christian churches should consider a ‘Day of Atonement’
Dear Editor, It amazes me that RTÉ has become a propaganda organ for the pro-choice lobby. For instance, on The Late Late Show (October 15, 2016), we had a Government minister telling the nation that he is in favour of abortion and euthanasia. I hope that nobody is fooled by this type of constant ‘liberal’…
Boredom… a fault within ourselves
Fr Ronald RolheiserIn 2011, a book by a young writer, Bieke Vandekerckhove, won the award as The Spiritual Book of the Year in her native Belgium. Entitled The Taste of Silence, the book chronicles her own struggles after being diagnosed at age 19 with ALS, commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease, a degenerative neurological condition that always results…
The bolder dream of friendship
“Our aim should not be the domination of the Islamic world; our aim should be friendship”, writes Fr Conor McDonough
Ashers case shows that equality law needs to change
Michael KellyThe court ruling that the Christians bakers have breached equality legislation has set a ‘dangerous precedent’ writes Michael Kelly
The UN’s latest nonsense
Mary Kenny“The latest announcement by the World Health Organisation…is surely an example of demanding inflated and unrealistic ‘rights’ from nature” writes Mary Kenny
There is and there is not an ‘ideal family’
David QuinnWhat did Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s words on family mean, wonders David Quinn
Where God is experienced as a reality
Nuala O’LoanNuala O’Loan shares her vision of the truly faith-based school
Countering the charges against faith schools
Ruth Kelly shared Britain’s experience of faith schools