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…