Dear Editor, Perhaps those who engaged in the synod process who had little interest in missionary work should read stories such as the one on your front page [The Irish Catholic – May 4, 2023]. There were lovely images of African women celebrating the Irish sisters who travelled to Cameroon and set up schools, both…
Dear Editor, Jason Osborne reported [The Irish Catholic – April 27, 2023] that pro-life politicians criticised the review of the State’s abortion law claiming that some of its recommendations violated a promise given at the time of the referendum. Mattie McGrath, for example, said “the report resembles the slippery slope that I and my colleagues warned about…
Dear Editor, It is wonderful to have people like Niamh Uí Bhriain call pro-abortion politicians out for their hypocrisy and undemocratic agendas [The Irish Catholic – April 27, 2022]. Some 400,000 people voted ‘No’ in the 2018 abortion referendum because they believed an unborn child deserves the right to life. That figure would have been…
Dear Editor, The Taoiseach’s defence of Catholic schools in the Dáil was a surprising and welcome occurrence [The Irish Catholic – March 23, 2023]. What’s rare is wonderful and when the leader of the Fine Gael, a party that has not exactly been kind to Catholic schools, says something like that, that’s something to note.…
Dear Editor, I agree with Mary Kenny’s views that opting for simple guidelines for fasting and abstinence for Lent are the best way to respond to the challenges of Lent. In my youth, fasting and abstinence and making our Easter duty seemed to be essential for doing a good Lent. However, some clergy have since…
Dear Editor, Regarding the front-page article by Chai Brady and Jason Osborne [The Irish Catholic – February 9, 2023] where parishes warn of Dublin City’s menacing decline: This wonderful article gave us a chilling reminder of just how close we have become to total anarchy. Of course, this decline of law and order is not…
Dear Editor, I have only recently become familiar, via a conversation with one of my granddaughters, with the concept of gaslighting. Gaslighting is characterised as a form of psychological manipulation in which a dominant party attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in the mind of someone else. Typically, gaslighters are seeking to gain power and…
Dear Editor, Dublin City Centre is in a sorry state of affairs. Reading your front page [The Irish Catholic – February 9, 2023] brought home the challenges facing our inner city churches. Anyone who has been out in Dublin, particularly in the evening, can see first hand the homelessness and drugs epidemic that is causing…
Dear Editor, Every year we have the same tired attacks on St Brigid in the media, with claims that she was involved in an abortion and was lesbian. Breda O’Brien’s piece was important as it pointed out the offensive co-opting of such a wonderful saint by those who seek to paint her in a way…
Dear Editor, Starting off with a bang, the new bishop of Ossory Niall Coll said it would be a “dreadful mistake” to secularise Catholic or other faith-based schools [The Irish Catholic – January 26, 2022]. It is a blessing we have received a bishop of his calibre, who has extensive experience in education, and who…