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Category: Opinion
The Mater hospital and abortion
Paul KeenanDear Editor, Your edition of June 12, 2014 included a full page advertorial promoting The Mater Foundation’s Make Your Will Week. This fund raising event for projects in the Mater Hospital poses something of a dilemma for potential donors or testators. Many of your readers, inspired by Christian charitable motives will want to support excellent…
Investigation child mortality
Dear Editor, Any commission set up to investigate infant mortality rates in Ireland in the last century should also be empowered to monitor the application of the so called Protection of Life in Pregnancy Act 2013. This law, for the first time in our history, gave permission for the wilful ending of the life of…
‘Change may be possible’
Cathal BarryThere is mounting speculation that the Church may reverse its ban on Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, writes Cathal Barry
Church can’t be stingy with God’s mercy
Today, for a number of reasons, we struggle to be generous and prodigal with God’s mercy. As the number of people who attend church services continues to decline, the temptation among many of our church leaders and ministers is to see this more as a pruning than as a tragedy and to respond by making…
Media the real villains over Tuam
Dear Editor, More than any other event in Ireland in recent memory, the story of the Tuam mother and baby home demonstrates so clearly the bias against the Church at the heart of the modern secular media. From a story made possible by already existing records – as confirmed by Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne in your…
The need for balanced reporting on Tuam
Dear Editor, It is high time that the Irish media employ professional critics who can write objectively, criticise constructively, enlighten their readers and show a degree of intelligence. “Tell us the truth about the children dumped in Galway’s mass graves” says The Guardian. “Almost 800 ‘forgotten’ Irish children dumped in septic tank mass grave at…
Coverage of the Tuam babies story
Dear Editor, I thought David Quinn’s piece on the Tuam story (‘Dealing with the issue of unwanted children’ IC 12/6/14) greatly helped to keep things in perspective. While there’s no question that the uncovering of the mass grave was shocking and disturbing, I feel as if the media was quick to sensationalise the story without…
The value of a Catholic press
Dear Editor, Over the past weeks I read, listened to and viewed the relentless and horrendous reports on the Tuam babies. And then I read the coverage of the same story in the pages of The Irish Catholic this June 12. Well done to the staff of your newspaper and thank God for a Catholic…
The Kingdom of God belongs to children
Dear Editor, I refer to the various letters (IC 12/6/14) concerning mother and baby homes and what has unfolded in recent days regarding the one in Tuam. As Morty O’Shea says, fuller and more accurate information is needed for a true assessment of what happened. Having said that I am disturbed by some of the…