Dear Editor, Your banner headline on “reaching out” (‘Parishes are urged to reach out to ‘lapsed Catholics’ IC 16/04/2015) could not have been more timely for us here in Arklow parish, as it is an affirmation of the major visitation project our Parish Pastoral Council has just concluded with the help of Legion of Mary…

Dear Editor, As a practicing Catholic gay man on the cusp of turning 40, I hope that I can face the next decade of my life in the happiness, security and protection of a civil marriage.  I love my Church and the traditions and values it has blessed me and my family with, however I cannot…

Dear Editor, As per Twitter’s intervention in the referendum – perhaps it proves that capitalist gilt will be allowed play more of a part in the debate rather than supposed Catholic guilt.   Yours etc., Brid Fitzpatrick, Terenure, Dublin 6W.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article by Greg Daly, ‘Church must be free to teach marriage stance – Bishop Doran’, (IC 09/04/2015). In the last paragraph of the article it is said that Mothers and Fathers Matter is the only campaign group calling for a ‘no’ vote. If one looks up SIPOC’s ‘Register of…

Dear Editor, As a married man, father of two small children, and a minister in the Catholic Church, I will be voting Yes on May 22. At the heart of the debate for me is whether a same-sex relationship can be placed on a par with a heterosexual one. For me, as for many people,…

Dear Editor, I very much appreciated Mary Kenny’s short discussion of the religious (and in many respects specifically Catholic) dimensions to the 1916 Easter Rising (IC 09/04/2015), and I certainly think she is ‘on the money’ when she states that these dimensions need to be part of the informed public discussion of the significance of…