Dear Editor, The international abortion provider Planned Parenthood has been caught on camera, by investigative reporters, offering aborted baby body parts for sale. By any measure, this massive human rights scandal is a news story. Not in our Irish media it seems, who have studiously ignored and buried Planned Parenthood’s activity. The Irish Family Planning…
Category: Opinion
Priests saved from Hiroshima blast lived Fatima message
Dear Editor, In the article on Hiroshima in the August 13 edition of The Irish Catholic (World of Books), I was disappointed that the miracle which saved the group of priests who were in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped was not mentioned. The presbytery was demolished, but the priests were not affected and suffered no…
It’s not all bad news for Catholics
Dear Editor, I am going on 95 years and looking at the sad stories that are being discussed in our world today, I want to remind Catholics of our wonderful past over 2,000 years and the dictators that tried to undermine our Church. In my time Stalin got into power and immediately got rid of…
Educate Together schools discriminate against Catholics
Dear Editor, Educate Together CEO Paul Rowe claims that giving preference to children who live in a school’s catchment area could be unfair to non-Catholic children from further away (IC 27/08/2015 ‘Divesting Catholic schools could result in segregation’). Does he not see the irony in this? ‘First come, first served’ admission policies, as favoured by…
How the liturgy is celebrated
The Church teaches that the liturgical word and action are inseparable, writes Cathal Barry
Service to others rather than self-fulfilment
Dear Editor, The heading to David Quinn’s article (IC 06/08/2015 ‘Priests and people alike will have to ‘interfere’ in politics) tells us that “the current retreat from politics means that the bishops have no vision of the common good to offer”. Yet, the much-lauded recent papal social encyclical says that individual fulfilment is at the…
Celebrating the Church’s liturgy
The Church teaches that certain members are called by God to a special service of the community, writes Cathal Barry
Human nature is not at odds with the call of faith
An American humourist was once asked what he loved most in life. This was his reply: “I love women best; whiskey next; my neighbour a little; and God hardly at all!” This flashed in my mind recently when, while giving a lecture, a woman asked this question: Why did God build us in one way…
Cemetery Masses a unique part of Irish summer
Embracing the elements for Cemetery Mass reveals the power of enduring love, writes Fr Martin Delaney
Making cold cash from those ‘cheatin’ hearts’
Adultery sites only seek to demean a serious sin, writes Mary Kenny

Courtney McGrail
Cathal Barry
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Mary Kenny