Dear Editor, In answer to Fr Oliver Skelly’s letter, “Confusion between Mass and Communion” (IC 29/01/2015), I remember my first ‘experience’ of a Communion service in a hospital chapel where I had entered to attend Mass. The Communion service consisted of the Liturgy of the Word – then the Our Father was recited and Communion…

Dear Editor, Pope Francis gave an interview on an airplane again and that means one thing: several media outlets waiting in the wings, like piranha in a tank, for morsels of ambiguity or concession on moral teaching, usually relating to sexual morality, to spin into sensational headlines. The holy father gave a vigorous defence of Humanae Vitae,…

Dear Editor, A recent letter entitled “The difference between ‘died’ and ‘passed’ (IC 08/01/2015) resonated with me two other wordsthat never sit well when read. They are ‘remains’ as in death, whereas ‘body’ is a much more spiritual word. Whenever I hear this I recall Romans 14.8 “whether we live or die we belong to the…

Dear Editor, The Government proposes an ‘historic’ change to the Irish Constitution, which will redefine the age-old definition of marriage. If approved by referendum, the amended definition will read: “Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex.” God’s definition of marriage as taught by Christ is: “Have…