Dear Editor, Next spring Irish voters will be asked in this Government’s referendum to legalise same-sex marriage – marketed as ‘marriage-equality’. For Irish society and for future Irish generations this means men marrying men and women marrying women, with children being raised in same-sex marriage unions. Irish voters of all faiths and none need to…

Dear Editor, Your reference to Esperanto in the July 24 issue brought back many very happy memories. For many years going back decades, I was immersed in La Internacia Llingvo, i.e. the international language, and I could speak it as fluently as English or Irish. I am a bit rusty now, as my vocabulary has…

Dear Editor, Well done to Marie Collins (IC, July 24) for calling out the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) for their denial about the Murphy Report.There is a worrying tendency in certain (mostly clerical) circles in the Church to engage in a process of trying to unpick the comprehensive reports that have shone light on…

Dear Editor, There is no doubt that the provision of hospital chaplaincy staff is a priority and as having ministered in a hospital, this service is needed as never before.I find that what patients need is the reassurance of the sacraments, especially with regards to Confession.  For a person who may be close to death…

Dear Editor, I’m finding the rise in attacks on churches in this country deeply disturbing. Last week’s paper reported an attack on a church in Limerick – Our Lady of Lourdes – and in previous weeks I remember there had been another church attack in Kilkeel, Co. Down followed by a synagogue that was attacked…