Dear Editor, Thank you so much for your coverage of the Olympics in recent weeks, and especially in the issue of August 18. The Irish Catholic should be commended especially for its focus on the faith dimension of the games, something too often overlooked. In other years this might be understandable, but it is hard…
Dear Editor, Fr Rolheiser in a convoluted article (IC 4/8/16), has given us his version of Hell, and on reading it I am wondering are we both in the same Church. Much of what he has written is contrary to what I had always believed. For clarification I turned to the Catechism of the Catholic…
Dear Editor, All human life is sacred. The child in the womb is human life. Therefore the life [of the child] in the womb is sacred. The above piece of simple logic is the reason why I and many, many others believe that abortion is always wrong. It is the reason why we believe that…
Dear Editor, There was a time when Catholics would read magazines or pamphlets and having been impressed by what they read would leave the article at the back of the church for others to read. Now some parish priests clean out their churches once a week so that there is nothing to pick up or…
Dear Editor, The photo of the four young women accompanying Greg Daly’s article (‘Keeping your range of university options open’, IC 18/08/2016) is a probably unintentional but appropriate illustration of a modern phenomenon in higher education – the vanishing male university student. Yours etc., Hugh Gibney, Athboy, Co Meath.
Dear Editor, Hard working Irish families pay huge taxes many of them used to pay for the problems caused by our government, a lot of them to pay for benefits for people claiming to be refugees and asylum seekers, but not all are genuine. When they are refused this status there is a long legal…
Dear Editor, I wish to voice my total and absolute support for Archbishop Diarmuid Martin with regards to Maynooth. He is perfectly right to remove his seminarians even if there are only three. He cannot and should not take any risk that could affect the formation of these three men to the priesthood. These allegations…
It’s funny where you can learn a lesson and catch a glimpse of the divine. Recently, in a grocery store, I witnessed this incident: A young girl, probably around 16 years of age, along with two other girls her own age, came into the store. She picked up a grocery basket and began to walk…
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