Dear Editor, I write to commend The Irish Catholic on its recent front page story regarding this year’s Mass to commemorate the sacrifice of those who fought during the 1916 Easter Rising (1916 families appeal for Mass ban to be lifted, IC 1/5/14). I was shocked to hear that the families of those who fought…

Dear Editor, I write in response to Syl Doyne’s letter (IC 8/5/14 edition) where questions were posed concerning sainthood. Firstly, there have actually been a large number of lay people canonised or currently en route to being canonised e.g. Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, St Gianna Molla (wife, mother and medical doctor), and Blessed Chiara Badano,…

Dear Editor, Mary Kenny suggests that “the world-wide success…of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) makes this method of assisted conception awkward to criticise” (IC 8/5/14). How does the untold holocaust of human embryonic life sacrificed on the altar of this unethical interference with nature qualify IVF as a 'success'? Does the end now justify the means?…