Mary Kenny“a Government Minister surely makes a major political error if she seems to have little feeling or respect for mothers who raise their children at home”, writes Mary Kenny
Category: Opinion
The world that produced Playboy also produced Donald Trump
David QuinnThe presidential candidate is a symptom of a wider malaise, writes David Quinn
A tendency towards pantheism
Courtney McGrailDear Editor, While it is good for us to seek to defend faith-based schools in a pluralist society, I see little benefit resulting from such effort while the Church in Ireland continues to devise and use catechetical programmes which have so diluted the Catholic Faith as to make it virtually impotent. As the letters of…
Moderation should never be confused with cowardice
Michael Kelly“Christianity, Catholicism, isn’t a collection of prohibitions: it’s a positive option”, writes Michael Kelly
Are Catholics and Anglicans really moving towards unity?
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, reconciliation and unity must take time as well”, writes Mary Kenny
A world without Down’s Syndrome is terrifying
“eugenics has crept up… almost unnoticed and… society in an almost unbreakable lock grip” within a logic that is “absolutely terrifying” writes David Quinn
Brexit fears were so predictable
Dear Editor, Your front page story ‘North feels “forced out of EU” by Brexit, Bishop warns’ (IC 6/10/2016) was as predictable as it is alarming. The concerns Bishop Donal McKeown expresses about and on behalf of ordinary working class people in Derry and elsewhere in the North following Britain’s vote to quit the EU give…
Denying the worth of a human being
Dear Editor, Tim Kaine, the Democratic candidate for US Vice-President, claims he is personally opposed to abortion but he does not think that he should impose these views on others: “I am personally opposed to affronts to life, such as abortion, but I will not advance that view through law.” This is also the prevailing…
Elected representatives should show sensitivity
Dear Editor, I could not agree more with Michael Kelly’s editorial comment (IC 6/9/2016) that “what is hidden by badges proclaiming Repeal the Eighth is the horror of what the phrase actually means”. Some political parties and even the Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone TD, seem to be oblivious to how provocative it can be…
We need plain facts of what constitutes life
Dear Editor, How can we live in a society where a man like Donald Trump is permitted to berate the world with his bigotry, let alone run for presidency of a so-called ‘superpower’? Trump reminds me of the drunk who torments punters down the local, spouting out nonsense and ignorance that nobody wants to hear.…