Dear Editor, Dr John Murray is being totally unfair to Pope Francis (‘Pope Francis and the common good’, IC Letters 3/10/13). Long ago the Church in Ireland was not forthright enough in speaking of social justice and the right of men and women to a living wage. Pope Francis does not minimise the importance of…
Category: Opinion
Global warming scepticism
Dear Editor, Mary Kenny is quite right to be sceptical about the theory of global warming. Hers is a most natural and thoroughly human reaction. After all, what if it should turn out to be true? When eminent scientists, led by the Surgeon General of the United States, many years ago propounded the then revolutionary…
Savita: Will the media apologise?
Dear Editor, As well as seeking accountability and changes from the HSE are we going to see some accountability from the secular media in Ireland, who rushed to judgment in the aftermath of Savita Halappanavar’s death and propagated the line that Mrs Halappanavar died because she “was denied an abortion”? We now know, thanks to…
Politicians should not be Eucharistic Ministers
Dear Editor, I write in response to the controversy created by Derek Keating TD and his position as Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist. Within the Catholic Church there is a ban on clergy becoming involved in party political activities. This is because such activity would be likely to be divisive within the community. A…
Actions have consequences for pro-abortion TDs
Cathal BarryChurch teaching on Ministers of the Eucharist is clear
Celebrating St Columban
Fr Seán McDonagh discusses the significance of the celebrations of the 1,400th anniversary of the death of St Columban
Finding a third way between rigorism and laxity
David QuinnWhat Catholicism has to say about sex runs counter to the ‘ideology of choice’, writes David Quinn
Is Pope Francis akin to Italy’s Monarch?
Mary KennyPope Francis is developing the kind of persona, for the Italians, that a much-loved monarch can represent, writes Mary Kenny
Unfinished business for the Dáil
Nothing is served by belittling Catholicism, says Fr Andrew McMahon
The abortion law can be overturned
Dear Editor, I deplore the abortion legislation recently passed by the Dáil. I applaud the work of the Pro Life Campaign, the Life Institute and others for mobilising such impressive numbers in opposition to the law. The way we approach the next phase of the campaign will determine whether or not the law is overturned…