Courtney McGrailDear 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…
Category: Opinion
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”
Pro-natalist policies require support for mothers
Mary Kenny“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…
Don’t forget ‘morning after’ effect
Dear Editor, Recently it was reported that the number of Irish mothers going to Britain for abortions has dropped from 6,673 in 2001 to 3,451 in 2015. This was great news for all our pro-life charities, and hoperfully is for the right reasons such as chastity before marriage, fidelity within marriage, single mothers and others…
Place of women in the Church
Dear Editor, Women were always looking after Jesus’ needs while he was on earth. Mary, his mother, looked after him until he was 30, and later stood by the cross. On the first Easter the women went to anoint Jesus’ body but found his empty tomb, and a woman recognised him when he called her…
Headline ‘inaccurate’
Dear Editor, Your front page headline ‘Divorced/remarried Catholics can now receive Communion’ (IC 15/09/2016) is inaccurate and gravely irresponsible. A (leaked) private papal letter cannot overturn the Magisterium of 2,000 years and the words of Jesus Christ himself (Mt 5; 31-32, Mt 7:6, Mt 19:2-12, Mk 10:2-12; Lk 16:18). It is also uncharitable and unmerciful…
Auschwitz was not ‘in Poland’
Dear Editor, In an article on the visit of the relics of St Maximilian Kolbe to Ireland (IC 15/09/2016) you state that “the relic of the saint who was martyred to save the life of another prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland will be in Ireland for the first time in October”. I would…