Dear Editor, In the November 19 issue there was an article stating that 19 priests a month are dying in Ireland. There is an evident decline in students for the priesthood which will have huge consequences on parish life. Many solutions are being proposed to respond to the pastoral needs of the people such as…

Dear Editor, Regarding Catholics in second marriages etc. not receiving the Eucharist but identifying themselves as public sinners (sexual sinners) by crossing their arms before the priest, let us introduce a new practise alongside this. Let all celebrants at Mass who are in a current sexual relationship, heterosexual or otherwise, refuse, in public, to take…

Dear Editor, Ray D’Arcy’s blood was boiling as he listened to David Quinn on the Clare Byrne Show. Maybe now he understands how many of us felt, when he allowed the views of Richard Dawkins and Ruaírí Quinn to go unchallenged on his own recent programmes. Yours etc., Brendan Daly, Longford, Co. Longford.

Dear Editor, I found Martin O’Brien’s article, ‘There something about Mary’ (IC 12/11/2015) most intriguing. Mary McAleese describes herself as being “more comfortable with the chaos of debate than in the festering suffocation of silence”. These are two extremes. Pope Benedict XVI described reason as one of the two wings – the other being faith…

Dear Editor, Shortly your readers will be asked, on their doorsteps, at polling booths and media debates, to elect a government which will shape Irish society for our children. Aggressive secularists in politics and media are now pushing their secularist values into schools in order to secularise coming generations. If you do nothing, they will…

Dear Editor, Mary McAleese has many welcome things to say in her interview (IC 12/11/2015). However, she would appear to be in error in the matter of corporal punishment of chwildren. You report her as saying in the interview, “I have raised the Church’s support for corporal punishment of children which is set out in…

Dear Editor, I found myself thinking the same thing as Mary Kenny when I first heard of the terrorist attacks in Paris, and later in Bamako, Mali and the lockdown in Brussels – Ireland, count your blessings (IC 19/11/2015). In times like these I thank God that I live in a small, insignificant country! Yours…