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Category: Opinion
Our Taoiseach is a confused ‘Catholic’
Paul KeenanDear Editor, Michael Kelly’s article on Enda Kenny’s interview with Gay Byrne on the Meaning of Life is spot on. It’s a sad day when a country’s leader, a deeply confused ‘Catholic’ (but non-Catholic Taoiseach) says he doesn’t believe in a personal God but instead believes in a kind of ‘force’ or ‘energy’ throughout the universe. The…
Remembering an Irish champion of education
Sr Rita Minehan csb The legacy of Laois man, Bishop Daniel Delany extends far beyond the Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin and even beyond the shores of Ireland. He was a man of vision and courage, with a passion for mission, and he saw education as the pathway to liberate the people from their misery…
Speaking nonsense on faith
Dear Editor, Regarding ‘Taoiseach’s Muddled Catholicism’ (IC 26/6/14 ), clearly Enda Kenny has no more interest in the Catholic faith than he has in the North. Can one ever imagine Dev. or Cosgrave speak such nonsense about the Faith? Yours etc., Fr Sean McManus, Washington DC, USA.
Ireland’s dangerous silence on abuse
A true understanding of sexual abuse is a long way off, writes Shane Dunphy
We need to up our game in passing on the Faith
Students are well able for more substantial content
Time is precious but distractions plentiful
Fr Ronald RolheiserGod is always speaking to us but normally we aren’t listening
The Mater hospital and abortion
Dear Editor, Your edition of June 12, 2014 included a full page advertorial promoting The Mater Foundation’s Make Your Will Week. This fund raising event for projects in the Mater Hospital poses something of a dilemma for potential donors or testators. Many of your readers, inspired by Christian charitable motives will want to support excellent…
How the world’s media misreported the Tuam story
David QuinnThere is a willingness to believe the worst about Catholic Ireland
Investigation child mortality
Dear Editor, Any commission set up to investigate infant mortality rates in Ireland in the last century should also be empowered to monitor the application of the so called Protection of Life in Pregnancy Act 2013. This law, for the first time in our history, gave permission for the wilful ending of the life of…