Dear Editor, As I grow older I go to more and more funerals; a fact of life! It seems as though these are significant occasions for evangelisation. Nowadays the minority of younger people attending funerals do not attend Mass regularly; they do not know the responses or the movements (knelling, standing etc.) Yet many of…

Dear Editor, For as long as I can remember the annual novena to St Gerard Majella took place in the Redemptorist church in Dundalk in October. As a youngster, I used to walk, with others, from the far side of the town for the devotions just after school. It was a novelty for us kids…

Dear Editor, Readers may notice how publicly-funded RTÉ presenters, and other media, have been using their publicly-funded media pulpits to attack the Eighth Amendment, Catholic ethos in schools and generally use their public position to advance secularisation.  Typically this involved inviting anti-Eighth Amendment studio guests in and then feeding them nice, soft, leading questions. We…

Dear Editor, It is incredible that in the present financial climate, as hundreds of Irish people are being evicted from their homes, we have homeless people dying on our city’s streets, refugees living in institutions that are a form of open prison and thousands of Syrians coming to our shores to escape warfare, that Ruth…

Dear Editor, In this digital age where so many of us have a closer relationship with our allegedly ‘smart’ phones and less with our creator, might I respectfully suggest that the better accessory to which we should become attached is a set of rosary beads. Granted, such rosarys lack technology but neither will they run…

Dear Editor, Your October 22 front page headline ‘Some Catholic teachers feel “intimidated” in faith schools’, makes for very sad reading. Prompted by this and your August article on the quality of religious education (RE) in secondary schools, I have reflected upon my experience as principal of two English secondary schools. English bishops organise regular…