Courtney McGrailDear Editor, Some secularists seem keen to curb conscience in public life. They would like to silence the vital voice of God within us. What did great thinkers have to say? According to Albert Einstein “conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state”. Mahatma Gandhi insisted “in matters of conscience the law of…
Category: Opinion
Heaven
Cathal BarryThe Church teaches that to live in Heaven is to be with Christ, writes Cathal Barry
The Eucharist is too profound to be fully grasped at first
Fr Ronald RolheiserChristian de Cherge, the Trappist Abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, told this story of his first Communion. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family in France and on the day of his first Communion he said to his mother: “I don’t understand what I’m doing.” She answered simply: “It’s okay, you…
Travelling along ‘the wrong path’
Paul KeenanVenezuela is on course for political and financial disaster, writes Paul Keenan
Peace demands passion, patience and hard work
To overcome fear, discrimination and conflict, people must have a deep desire to open themselves up to God and his mercy, and work actively for peace every day, Pope Francis said. God’s plan for creation is peace, “which always meets opposition from humanity and the devil”, he said during a one-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina on…
Many Catholics are out of touch with Church teaching
Greg DalyDear Editor, While I mourn the result of the same-sex marriage referendum I also think of the hard work put in by you and all the writers in The Irish Catholic. You rose to the challenge in the face of a hostile and biased establishment. Considering the circumstances, the fact that the vote came in…
Appalled by Aodhán O Ríordáin’s attitude to schools
Dear Editor, I was appalled at the attitude of Junior Minister, Aodhán O Ríordáin to changing the laws that help preserve the ethos of denominational schools of all religions. This is the man who once said that civil servants should not give any undue deference to churchmen. His cynical plan is to make the law…
Thank you for referendum coverage
Dear Editor, Thank you for the consistent, clear and courageous leadership that was given to your readers during the referendum campaign. This was certainly not granted by everyone. Yours etc., Mrs Judith Leonard, Raheny, Dublin 5.
We should discuss married priests and female deacons
Michael KellyIt’s an idea worthy of consideration, writes Michael Kelly
We need to face widespread rejection of Church teaching
Dear Editor, Fr Mannion (Letters, 28/05/2015) fails to notice the clear teaching of Jesus in Mark 10 that marriage is a natural union of male and female, substituting instead the ideas that men and women share equal dignity and “the ideal of marriage as a commitment for life”. Logically, his interpretations do not exclude the…