Dear Editor, The global opprobrium resulting from the sentence of death by hanging handed down to Meriam Yahia Ibrahim in Sudan for refusing to repudiate her Christian faith seemingly has had an impact. The Sudanese government are giving indications the sentence will be set aside and she will be released. However, there is no indication…

Dear Editor, Your columnist David Quinn’s assertion that “faith, morality and politics are inextricably linked” (Cost of separating faith and politics IC 29/5/14) is correct. Catholics and other Christians need to recognise that who you vote into political power or who controls media-spin, controls society and shapes Irish society to their value system. Catholics need…

Dear Editor, Reading the bishops statement and Nuala O Loan’s article on racism, one must ask what racism is. Is it racism to ask why we are spending so much of our hard earned taxes on huge benefits for non-Irish when our own children are going hungry? Is it racism to ask why the money…

Dear Editor, The imminent demise of All Hallows College is regrettable, particularly given that my extended family were educated in part for the religious life in Drumcondra. The many foreign language students discommoded by the closure of five language schools in Dublin might offer the college board a lifeline. Having excelled at spiritual education over…

Dear Editor, The imminent demise of All Hallows College is regrettable, particularly given that my extended family were educated in part for the religious life in Drumcondra. The many foreign language students discommoded by the closure of five language schools in Dublin might offer the college board a lifeline. Having excelled at spiritual education over…

Dear Editor, When in Rome, Enda Kenny apparently invited Pope Francis to visit Ireland. Since then The Irish Catholic has been promoting the idea, ostensibly to assist the peace process in the North. Our Taoiseach and our anti-Catholic Government would welcome a boost to their re-election prospects in two years’ time but do they deserve…

Dear Editor, In a world and at a time when cyber-theft and warnings of same have us all of a dither, perhaps it’s time that we reclaimed the internet. It is, after all, a gift of the Holy Spirit and it’s time we use it and all technological advances for the good and praise of…