Dear Editor, With regards to the proposed “reality check” that the Roman Catholic Church may or may not need to take, depending on your point of view, permit me to throw the following observations into the mix. Firstly the general population’s understanding of the nature of marriage, sexual intercourse, contraceptives and homosexuality has changed dramatically…

Dear Editor, In your June 4 edition you publish an advertorial in support of the Mater Hospital Foundation’s “Make Your Will Week”. The excellent work of the medical, nursing and other staff of the hospital are described in the advertorial and it may be that some readers of The Irish Catholic will be moved to offer…

Dear Editor, I was very impressed by the pictures of the Corpus Christi processions in Millstreet and Templemore in The Irish Catholic on June 18. But where are the processions from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s? Why did they stop? The same goes for Marian processions and the traditional practice of the crowning of a statue…

Dear Editor, RTÉ News very briefly carried the tragic story of the young Irish woman who in 2012 died after an abortion carried out at a London clinic. Three abortion clinic staff – a doctor and two nurses – were being charged in court with manslaughter and negligence. Subsequently other media ignored this woman’s tragic…