Dear Editor, Thank you for the consistent, clear and courageous leadership that was given to your readers during the referendum campaign. This was certainly not granted by everyone. Yours etc., Mrs Judith Leonard, Raheny, Dublin 5.
Greg Daly
Appalled by Aodhán O Ríordáin’s attitude to schools
Dear Editor, I was appalled at the attitude of Junior Minister, Aodhán O Ríordáin to changing the laws that help preserve the ethos of denominational schools of all religions. This is the man who once said that civil servants should not give any undue deference to churchmen. His cynical plan is to make the law…
Many Catholics are out of touch with Church teaching
Dear Editor, While I mourn the result of the same-sex marriage referendum I also think of the hard work put in by you and all the writers in The Irish Catholic. You rose to the challenge in the face of a hostile and biased establishment. Considering the circumstances, the fact that the vote came in…
Killing is not Caring
A Dublin conference has heard that assisted suicide threatens the weakest among us, Greg Daly reports
Physician-assisted suicide debate re-runs may be an abuse of democracy
The Scottish parliament’s 82-36 vote against the introduction of physician-assisted suicide won’t end Britain’s assisted dying debate, any more than did Holyrood’s previous 85-16 vote against it in 2010, or a succession of failed legislative attempts in Westminster and the Welsh assembly. Responding on Twitter to plans for further attempts to legalise assisted suicide, the…
Government migrant inaction is criticised
Plans to resettle 520 migrants inadequate – claim
Pope’s decision on Medjugorje imminent
Vatican to issue guidelines to bishops’ conferences about the phenomenon
We need to face widespread rejection of Church teaching
Dear Editor, Fr Mannion (Letters, 28/05/2015) fails to notice the clear teaching of Jesus in Mark 10 that marriage is a natural union of male and female, substituting instead the ideas that men and women share equal dignity and “the ideal of marriage as a commitment for life”. Logically, his interpretations do not exclude the…
Need for greater commitment to Christ
Dear Editor, After the carnival (also described as ‘pentecostal’) celebration that marked the passing of the ‘yes’ vote in the recent referendum, it was interesting for me (who voted ‘no’) to react next morning feeling that nothing had changed – certainly for me. My views on homosexuality had in no way altered, nor was I…
Numbers in the News
50 The number of homeless and poor people led by Rome’s St Lucia parish, with financial assistance from Pope Francis, on a pilgrimage to see the Shroud of Turin on June 4. Parish priest Fr Antonio Nicolai said the Pope offered help to the pilgrims with “the conviction that, like the shroud, they represented the…