Courtney McGrailDear 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…
Category: Opinion
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
Cathal BarryThe Church teaches that music forms an integral part of solemn liturgy, writes Cathal Barry
God is ineffable but not a stranger
Fr Ronald Rolheiser“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
Britain’s ‘right to die’ debate has a chilling tone
Michael KellyChanging legislation in Britain could prompt copycat policies in Ireland, writes Michael Kelly
Clergy, please preach against rural crime
Mary KennyTheft is a moral crime that threatens the ‘common good’, writes Mary Kenny
Christians can be targets of hate crimes too
David QuinnDo the Church scandals justify the attack on Bishop Bill Murphy, asks David Quinn
Minding our language…Church communication and the referendum debate
The Church in Ireland needs a new generation of articulate lay people and serious leadership from the bishops, writes Fr Andrew McMahon