Dear Editor, It is not just pro-life groups but all of us that should be concerned that most of our main political parties reject the notion of allowing for a freedom of conscience in voting on such social issues as abortion. Sinn Féin like others before, lost an opportunity to be seen as a party that…

Dear Editor, Regarding David Quinn’s article, ‘The chattering class and its enemies’, (IC 13/2/14). He complains of no counter-balancing interviews on RTÉ in the euthanasia debate. May I direct his attention to The God Slot of Friday, October 18, 2013, on RTÉ Radio 1, which was acknowledged by no less an authority as Brendan O’Regan as…

Dear Editor, As Church we are enriched enormously through the gift that is the leadership and inspiration of Pope Francis.  However, a gift is useless unless we accept, embrace and utilise it to the full.  In realising the fullness of that giftedness, we will be aware that Pope Francis himself points us to the giftedness…

Dear Editor, What an excellent piece on Latterday Latin Classics by your books editor (IC 20/2/14). But I have to disagree with your editor that Catholic lovers of Latin see the language only as a way of preserving religious tradition. A knowledge of Latin is also vital to understanding the source of English words, such…

Dear Editor, The purpose of the Church is not to reflect secular culture but to evangelise it. Christ charged us to go forth to all the nations and spread the Gospel. This adherence to perennial truth, in the service of he who is the Truth, is radically contrary to contemporary relativism. The contrast was exemplified…

Dear Editor, One of the questions connected with the idea of same-sex marriage is that of same-sex couples raising children. This, I suggest, is an issue where the sexual orientation of the adults can be quite irrelevant. Unusually perhaps, my father and his brother married twin sisters.  At one time in my childhood, my mother…