Category: Opinion

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…

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…

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…

“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…