Mags GarganDear Editor, In the issue of January 16, Peter Costello reviewed At the Praetorium: Good Friday Revisited, a trilogy of one act plays’ by Sean Walsh, the former head of drama on radio at RTÉ. The review remarks “it is always difficult to see how plays might be in performance, but these are not (on…
Category: Opinion
Opus Dei – priests who strive for holiness
Dear Editor, In an interview with Martin O’Brien (IC 16/1/14) Denis Bradley is reported as having said “the Church at a clerical level has been taken over by very young and very conservative young men. I think half of them are in Opus Dei." Would that half of them were trained for the priesthood by ‘Opus…
Granting the red hat North and South
Dear Editor, You recently published an article on what the chances were of an imminent Irish cardinal – poor enough at present, I agree (IC 16/1/14). But by way of explanation that it would be heading North when finally bestowed, you stated that the odds are in favour of such an eventuality because, with the…
Newcomers transforming the North’s schools
Cathal BarryThere is a dramatic increase in newcomer pupils attending schools across the North says Kathryn Torney, The Detail
Parishes have to prioritise growth
Michael KellyThere is no simple solution to Church decline, but it is not inevitable writes Michael Kelly
Keeping the show on the road isn’t enough
Church renewal requires more than parish clustering, writes Michael kelly
The profession of faith
Cathal Barry takes a look at what the Catechism says about the creeds
The crime of gossip
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”
Gay marriage ‘debate’ goes from bad to worse
The LGBT community need to get wise, says Sarah Carey
An inspirational good samaritan story
Mary KennyAs you grow older, you realise that every event in your life, however intense, is just an episode: nothing endures, says Mary Kenny