Mags GarganDear Editor, Serious questions now arise for the National Management Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul following the revelation (IC 04/09/2014) that they appropriated substantial funds to an organisation (Amach! LGBT Galway) whose ethos furthers activities which are contrary to Catholic Church moral teaching. So far, the response from the SVP smacks…
Category: Opinion
The last of the great demagogues
Cathal BarryWe should give thanks for Ian Paisley’s conversion, says Fr Joe McVeigh
The legacy of Dr Ian Paisley
Dear Editor, The legacy of the late Dr Ian Paisley has been the subject of much comment. A summing-up of the legacy from the Catholic point of view is that for 40 years, Dr Paisley assisted in stopping Catholics getting civil rights. Of course, he did so as the popular voice of deep feelings on…
A painful and hurtful road to peacemaker
Lives could have been saved if Paisley’s ‘yes’ had come decades earlier, says Fr Tim Bartlett
Overcoming a culture of doubt
People always listen when they hear others talking about their faith experiences.
Moving beyond provincialism in Irish Catholicism today
Michael KellyTraditional Irish Catholicism, for all of its positive qualities, was infused with an arrogance that is now scarcely believable.
Reacting to criticism and bitter opposition
Fr Ronald RolheiserNatural instinct does not want to try to understand the position of the one who has belittled us
The mysteries of Jesus’ hidden life
The hidden life at Nazareth allows everyone to enter into fellowship with Jesus, writes Cathal Barry
SVP’s grant to LGBT group should be withdrawn
Dear Editor, The €45,000 SVP grant pay-out to Galway LGBT will shock the many loyal, faithful Catholics who have supported the SVP and the poor with their money for decades. The LGBT lobby group is currently campaigning for same-sex marriage in Ireland, with men marrying men, women marrying women and same-sex adoption of children as…
Abortion legislation is misguided
Dear Editor, In pregnancy, Irish medicine has a long-held tradition of treating both patients: the expectant mother and her developing child. In the recent case of the young woman who was raped and became pregnant, she has suffered greatly. However, it is wrong to think that an abortion would solve the problem. Having an abortion…