Courtney McGrailDear 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…
Category: Opinion
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
Fr Ronald RolheiserThere’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
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
In 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