Dear Editor, I write as a simple layman, who wishes to respond to the invitation on the front page of The Irish Catholic ( 17/4/14) inviting laypeople to express their views on Church renewal. Father Tom Whelan, Prof. Eamonn Conway and some of our Irish bishops suggest that because of the shortage of priests, laypeople could…

Dear Editor, A propos Minister Quinn's latest dictat regarding the teaching of religion in Catholic Schools, are we now to understand that the teaching of a rational, historically based religion like Christianity is to be placed on a par with irrational nonsense like astrology, alien abduction, New Age fantasy or whatever else you're having yourself?…

Dear Editor, Fr Tom Grufferty deplored the lack of a Catholic presence at the President's visit to Britain and suggested a visit to Westminster Cathedral should have been included. On the contrary, Southwark Cathedral should have been a 'pit stop' for the President because, when Terence McSweeney, the Mayor of Cork, died on hunger strike…

Dear Editor, Many many congratulations to you and you staff at The Irish Catholic for the excellent commemorative edition of the paper (24/4/14) to honour the Two Popes, Two Saints. Received in the days before the canonisations in Rome, the edition was, for me, not only the perfect prologue to events but a wonderful, detailed…

Dear Editor, Regarding David Quinn’s ‘Gender-bending’ comes to your local primary school’ (IC 17/4/14), to publish such a disrespectful and demeaning article about transgendered people in your newspaper presents a most hateful side of Catholicism. Trans people have the highest rate of suicide Ireland. Where was your editorial judgement? One would expect any report to…