Dear Editor, Please allow me to make the following reply with reference to Fr David Barrins’ comments in his recent interview with The Irish Catholic (02/10/2014) concerning what he terms as the “intolerant” posture of UCC and third level institutions in dealing with a lack of “plurality of opinions properly represented on campus”. Third level…

Dear Editor, David Quinn’s informative article (IC 25/09/2014) tells how the pro-abortion movement is pressing for a “new abortion referendum”. The purpose is to remove the constitutional protection of the equal right to life of the mother and the unborn child. There is a natural hierarchy of human rights. The right to life remains by…

Dear Editor, How right the doctors for life were in their recent letter published in your paper (IC 18/09/2014) where they stated that having an abortion does not reverse the pregnancy. In fact one can also add that from the moment fertilisation takes place the woman becomes a mother. She will depart this life as…

Dear Editor, David Quinn succinctly outlines the likely outcome of any change to the pro-life clause in our Constitution (IC 25/09/2014). I cannot but be moved by the stories of women in traumatic circumstances, such as a mother with an unborn child with foetal abnormalities or a victim of rape or incest, and many Catholics…

Dear Editor, Countries express horror at how the Nazis killed millions of innocent people in the gas chambers of concentration camps, yet these very same countries sanction the killing of millions of unborn human beings by abortion today. Why? The evil of slavery was tolerated in the 19th Century and, until recent years, the cruelty…