Dear Editor, RTÉ is calling for the defamation laws to be relaxed. It believes they are too restrictive. They want to be freer to say and show things without fear of defamation laws, it seems. We all remember the monstrous injustice to Fr Kevin Reynolds in the Mission to Prey programme on Prime Time on…
Category: Opinion
The Big Bang and the Creator
Dear Editor, The Big Bang theory of evolution is not the first step in creation; it is the second. The first step was when God created infinity out of nothing. During the lifetimne of the universe, any big or small bang ended in disorder. Why did the Big Bang theory end in order? The hand…
Lay Apostle Anne and Church teaching
Dear Editor, Bishop Leo O’Reilly who has given his imprimatur to ‘Anne’ the lay apostle should be given a copy of her book The Breakable Vow written under her own name Kathryn Ann Clarke… Very crude, vulgar language in it. Kathryn also advises one to get out of an abusive relationship. This is in direct…
Seeking the votes of Catholics
Dear Editor, We all know that Local Government and EU elections will be taking place next May. So politicians who campaigned to introduce abortion into Irish legislation will be seeking the votes of Catholic and other pro-life Christians. Recent news from Britain was that the bodies of aborted babies were being burnt in some hospital…
Memories of the last days of Pope John Paul II
The final days of Pope John Paul II had a profound effect on me, writes Michael Kelly
Defending Mother Teresa
Dear Editor, Fr Rolheiser’s article on Mother Teresa, God’s purity arrives in the darkest of nights (IC 20/3/14) was hard to take. In my life I have struggled with my own weaknesses to try to follow the way of Jesus Christ. I have found him to be my companion and guide but I also recognise…
Praying for life this Lent
Dear Editor, I am writing to you about the 40 days for life prayer and fasting campaign continuing to Easter Sunday outside the Marie Stopes abortion referral centre on Berkeley Street Dublin 7. This is the fourth year that we have held this event and it has proved to be a very successful spiritual occasion.…
The Church’s message on relationships and sex is tough but also fulfilling
Who is shaping our norms, asks Breda O’Brien
The end (if it ever existed) of Irish liberalism
The ‘anything goes’ ethos is facing a real test, writes David Quinn
Society’s latest buzzword – ‘Autonomy’
Almost everything we do affects someone else

Paul Keenan
Michael Kelly
Breda O'Brien
David Quinn
Mary Kenny