Dear Editor, In his most interesting letter regarding the face of Our Lady of Knock sculpted by the renowned Italian sculptor Professor Lorenzo Ferri (IC 03/09/2015), Msgr Denis O’Callaghan correctly observes that the professor “was inspired to read the image of the Mother of Jesus as a reflection of that of her Son on the…
Category: Opinion
Delighted to see missionaries being recognised
Dear Editor, I was delighted to read that two missionaries and an overseas chaplain are being honoured by President Michael D. Higgins for their “distinguished service” (IC 03/09/2015). Missionaries have devoted their lives to the service of others and have achieved the most incredible things in the field of medicine, education and human rights in…
Media silence on Planned Parenthood is appalling
Dear Editor, The abortion industry in the US has been thrown into turmoil as secretly taped videos showing Planned Parenthood (PP) officials haggling over the price of body parts from aborted babies have gone viral on Youtube. The mothers of the aborted babies were not informed about their dead babies organs being sold. In one…
Appeal for response to Lough Derg questionnaire
Dear Editor, During my pilgrimage to St Patricks Purgatory in June this year I was given permission to carry out a questionnaire about the three-day pilgrimage for my theology dissertation. If any of The Irish Catholic’s readers have recently or in the past experienced the pilgrimage and would be kind enough to complete a questionnaire…
Music in the liturgy
The Church teaches that music forms an integral part of solemn liturgy, writes Cathal Barry
God is ineffable but not a stranger
“God, as I understand him, is not very well understood.” A colleague of mine, now deceased, was fond of saying that. It’s a wise comment. Anyone who claims to understand God is deceived because the very first dogma we have about God affirms that God is ineffable. That means that we can know God, but…
Conversations about the meaning of faith
The Faith and Life Convention offers Catholics the opportunity to celebrate their faith
Remembering Pope Paul’s longest day
Pope Paul’s historic trip was the calm before the storm, writes Andrew O’Connell
Education gives us a profile of the nation’s values
Facts show that faith-based schools still come out on top, writes Mary Kenny
We should be ashamed of our country
As Irish people we should have more empathy for the plight of migrants, writes Fr Alan Hilliard

Courtney McGrail
Cathal Barry
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Mary Kenny