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Category: Opinion
Gaining a sense of solidarity
Mary KennyI spent a lovely couple of days last week in Killarney, where I was asked to address the priests, and a couple of bishops, in the Diocese of Kerry. Kerry people are always welcoming and Killarney itself really does live up to its reputation of outstanding beauty, so it was a pleasing interlude indeed. Sometimes…
Speaking up for persecuted Christians
Michael KellyWhy is Christian persecution largely unreported?
Have an affair? And pay for it!
Secret affairs have consequences, writes Mary Kenny
On the dangers of defining ourselves
Fr Ronald RolheiserWe need to know our real centres, writes Fr Rolheiser
Authority guarantees unity in the Church
Dear Editor, I do hope that Fr Gabriel Daly’s attack on Cardinal Levada (IC Letters 12/12/13) will not go unanswered. It is not likely that Cardinal Levada will be reading the letters in your paper. But someone should point out that Fr Gabriel avoided any specific details as to why the cardinal did act as he…
Give lay people a greater role
Dear Editor, How interesting to read in The Irish Catholic on January 2, that the ‘Pope Francis effect’ is credited with a surge in numbers at Christmas Masses over and above figures in previous years, and then to read, on the turn of the page, Editor Michael Kelly’s argument for ‘Finding space for the people…
Defending the Capuchin Day Centre
Dear Editor, How relieved I was when, just ahead of Christmas I read in The Irish Catholic the defence – against the worst intentions of a secular Sunday newspaper – of the work of the Capuchin Day Centre and the entirely unpaid role played by Br Kevin Crowley over many years in providing for the…
Giving without taking
I was saddened to learn that the Capuchin Day Centre had been singled out for criticism by a Sunday newspaper in an apparent attempt to build on the disturbing financial news coming from the Central Remedial Clinic. The mistake made by the paper in question – if it was a mistake – was to assume…
The life and death of a child
Dear Editor, Margaret Nolan wonders (IC 12/12/13) what real criteria psychiatric teams in the Mater Hospital will use in deciding on the life and death of a child in the womb? Now that the ‘Protection’ of Life during Pregnancy Act has gone into law without effective guidelines, the answer appears all too clear: None. Yours…