Dear Editor, Thank you to David Quinn for his comments in the June 9 issue on the problem of bias in the Irish media. It’s so frustrating day after day to have to observe this blatant bias in action in our national papers and on our radio/television. The Irish media behave as though Catholics in this country are not…
The Christian meaning of death, according to the Church, is revealed in the light of the death and Resurrection of Christ, writes Cathal Barry
The Gospels tell us that after King Herod died, an angel appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, telling him: “Get up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the child’s life are now dead” (Matthew 2: 19-20). The angel, it would seem, spoke prematurely,…
There seems to be a constant desire to uncover secrets
Priesthood has, in a sense, been lost in a fog of a desire to promote the universal call to holiness
It is such a tragedy that Amnesty has taken away the focus from their great work by introducing abortion as a campaigning issue
“Within the Church people often feel vulnerable and feel forced to hide behind the cloak of anonymity”, writes Editor Michael Kelly
“Elizabeth has achieved a form of ecumenism simply by faithfully adhering to her own Christian faith”, writes Mary Kenny
Government only taking ruling seriously because it adds weight to demands for repeal of the Eighth Amendment, writes David Quinn
Dear Editor, A few years ago a priest friend, while on holiday from England, was one of the concelebrants of a funeral Mass for John, who had Down Syndrome. Many of the deceased’s friends and colleagues from the Old Monastery Day Centre, Killarney attended the Mass and gave public expression to their loyalty and deep…
Cathal Barry
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Michael Kelly
Mary Kenny
David Quinn