Courtney McGrailDear Editor, Bro. Malachy Buckley is quite right to mention Mary, the Mother of God and the most important woman who ever lived, and Mary Magdalen (IC 22/09/2016). It is all the more significant, therefore, that Jesus did not invite any women to the Last Supper, but just ‘the twelve’ – including the traitor, Judas…
Category: Opinion
An unfortunate comparison
Dear Editor, I refer to Mary Kenny’s article in The Irish Catholic, ‘Mrs May’s boost for faith education’ (IC 15/09/2016). Whilst pleased to be learning of the details to changes in religious schools in Britain, I felt uncomfortable with the comparison made between the child of an ophthalmic surgeon sitting next to the child of…
Creating software, moral formatting and living in sin
Fr Ronald RolheiserWhile I was doing graduate studies in Belgium, I lived at the American College in Leuven. On staff there at the time, in the housekeeping and maintenance department, was a wonderfully colourful woman whose energy brought oxygen into a room but whose history of marriage somewhat paralleled that of the Samaritan woman in John’s Gospel.…
Sniffing out new bishops is a papal priority
Pope Francis has entrusted nuncio’s with the important task of finding candidates who are ” managers, but pastors”
No good can come from applying labels to children
Mary Kenny“Human life is not some consumerised product… whereby only those who pass the test of being ‘chosen’ may be regarded as admissible”, writes Mary Kenny
Ploughing through the numbers
Greg DalyGreg Daly examines a recent survey of religious belief and practice in the farming community
Wrong for remarried Catholics to receive Communion
Dear Editor, Reporter Greg Daly quoted me in his September 23 article (‘Irish Bishops urged to adopt divorce-Communion policy’) about giving Holy Communion to divorced and remarried Catholics. His incomplete reference gives the impression that I approve of this practice. I emphatically do not. It is wrong for someone who is living in a state…
Pro-natalist policies require support for mothers
“in so many… countries desperate for better fertility… the economic structure of society just doesn’t support mothers, fathers and families”, writes Mary Kenny
Caricaturing the Church’s teaching on birth control and family size
David QuinnThe Church is not involved in a numbers game, writes David Quinn
Pope must clarify Church’s position
Dear Editor, I was amazed to read your front page story last week, declaring that ‘Divorced/remarried Catholics can now receive Communion’ (IC 15/09/2016). The story below the headline was scarcely less amazing. I appreciate that the circumstances under which the Argentine bishops envisage allowing some Catholics who have civilly remarried followed civil divorces to receive…