Dear Editor, So it seems the sale of Aer Lingus isn’t the only thing the Government can be accused of ‘ramming’ though the Dáil. I was disappointed to read in last week’s edition of The Irish Catholic that plans are afoot to strip Catholic schools and hospitals of one of the last tools they have…

Dear Editor, The unimaginable has happened – same-sex marriage is now legal in Ireland, voted in by the Catholic population. This is surreal. This is despite the best herculean efforts on the ground by dedicated groups of lay people. However the timid instruction from the shepherds was very weak, with no mention of Jesus Christ and that…

Dear Editor, I am thankful to Archbishop Martin and the clergy who endeavoured to guide and instruct us in the run up to the referenda. Unfortunately the result in the marriage referendum wasn’t what many of us would have liked. We must now go forward in hope and trust and pray for our beloved country,…

Dear Editor, After the referendum result was announced the Archbishop of Dublin is quoted as saying that the Church needs “a reality check” and needs to ask if it has drifted away from young people. For decades in this country, the young people have not been fed the truth of our Faith but rather an…

Dear Editor, We in the Irish Catholic Church would do well to wake up, open our eyes, get a realistic view of each of the 26 dioceses, and begin by discussing the various ills and weaknesses that afflict them. And if we could take a leaf out of the late William Glasser’s ‘Reality Therapy’, it…

Dear Editor, Congratulations on your special issue of the paper (IC 21/05/2015) celebrating the life and legacy of Archbishop Oscar Romero. The monsignor was an incredible inspiration and his beatification is a well-deserved, and long-time coming, recognition of his bravery and compassion in speaking out against violence and injustice, and spreading the Gospel message of…

Dear Editor, The judgment that Ashers Bakery acted in a discriminatory fashion by refusing to decorate a cake with the slogan “Support Gay Marriage” raises a terrifying spectre of a future where the facile slogan “Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t get one” seems but a fond memory. I do not understand how Judge Isobel Brownlie…

In his letter last week, Dr John Murray inaccurately stated the name of the school in which he works in Mater Dei Institute of Education. It should have read ‘School of Theology’. Dr Murray apologises for the inaccuracy in this regard. Of course, Dr Murray was writing in a personal capacity as a Catholic theologian,…