Dear Editor, Michael Healy (Letters, September 17, 2015) isn’t the only person who thinks that the priest greeting everyone twice at Mass is superfluous. In the sacristy of Clonskeagh church in Dublin, I once greeted the late curate, Fr Arthur Larkin, with “Good evening Father” and then, after a short pause, “Good evening Father” again. …

Dear Editor, As we approach next month’s Synod of Bishops on the family, one needs to be careful which side one chooses to take in all this. In relation to the Kasper proposal, Cardinal Kasper and others are putting forward a proposal for changes to allow divorced and ‘remarried’ Catholics to receive Holy Communion and…

Dear Editor, The news that there is an increase in the sale of abortion pills in Ireland was followed immediately by yet another demand for widening the provisions for legalised abortion here.  Unfortunately, however, just as with the GAA and the amateur status, we cannot have ‘a little’ payment of players; and no country has…

Dear Editor, Mary Kenny seems at sea with the details of the displacement of Germans from eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War and its aftermath (IC 17/9/15). Whereas many Germans and people of other nationalities fled red army advances towards the war’s end and immediately afterwards, the Allies decided to resettle…

Dear Editor, Thank you for your report on visitors to Longford Cathedral by Mags Gargan (IC 10/09/15), but I was disappointed that there was no mention of the ‘miraculous’ picture of the Holy Family which survived the devastating fire. At this time of satanic attacks on Catholic families, how heartening to know that The Holy…