Category: Opinion

Dear Editor, It is embarrassing to listen to and read the attempts by the so-called mainstream media to explain away their dishonest and distorted coverage of the US Presidential Election. It is high time they exited their self-created bubble and entered the real world. And what price now the value of the polls they create…

Dear Editor, The year of Mercy concludes on November 13 but Mercy as a Christian duty continues life-long. Pope Francis has given a vital practical example of mercy towards refugees.  We shall prepare to celebrate Christmas shortly, shall we say “No room at the Inn” to refugees? Many convents and religious houses have just a…

Dear Editor, Contributors are wanted urgently for a new book about couples that left Northern Ireland after making a mixed marriage. The Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA) is producing a paperback that will give at least six couples the chance to tell in their own words how they were affected when they put love…

Atheism is a parasite that feeds on bad religion. That’s why, in the end, atheistic critics are our friends. They hold our feet to the fire. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx, for example, submit that all religious experience is ultimately psychological projection. For them, the God we believe in and who undergirds our…