Dear Editor, Fine Gael candidates will undoubtedly suffer a backlash in the upcoming Local and European Elections due to the outrageous and contemptible behaviour by Enda Kenny and the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party in forcing through and allowing for abortion in cases of suicidal ideation especially as it was proven beyond all reasonable doubt that…

Dear Editor, What an interesting week for those turning their eyes to Rome. In quick order Pope Francis received America’s President Barack Obama and then Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. The former, via his backing for abortion in America as evidenced in his ‘Obamacare’ reforms, is surely no friend of the Church. On more friendly terms,…

Dear Editor, I read with dismay the article in the Irish Catholic of April 3 that there are, as yet, no concrete plans to establish a nationwide mission to renew the Irish Church. For nothing to have happened, or even to have been planned, four years after Pope Benedict's call is bewildering. Are we to…

Dear Editor, On the subject of funerals, Sarah Carey, (whose articles I enjoy), recently expressed shock at not being able to assume that her recently deceased friend, "a great lady who reared a large family", wasn't already in Heaven. She wrote: "I think the majority of the congregation would be severely taken aback to learn…

Dear Editor, Sarah Carey's View (IC, 3/4/14) should be compulsory reading for the nations' priests and her treatise on the issue of sacred versus secular music at funerals was heartening. Clearly torn between the ‘official advice’ of expecting only sacred music whilst appreciating the role that secular music can play at heart-breaking times, she presented…