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…

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…

Dear Editor, Last week, the media reported about a pro-life pregnancy counselling agency that is apparently giving women inaccurate advice in order to pressure them into not having an abortion. This was well covered by RTÉ, and a man from the agency in question featured on Liveline. He did not do the pro-life cause very…

Dear Editor, If one approaches the issue of abortion purely on a scientific and sociological basis, the answers seem to validate the religious approach. For example, the life that begins in the woman’s womb is a human life. That said, l object to capital punishment, a view shared by most liberal thinkers. If the human…

Dear Editor, David Quinn (Moves to ban the burkini are excessive and counterproductive, IC 1/9/16) says, in reference to France that “the weight of Catholic opinion is opposed to the ban on grounds of religious freedom”. It should also be said that very many Catholics (and others also) in France and elsewhere are opposed to…