Jennifer Sleeman’s call for women to boycott Catholic Masses tomorrow week has certainly caught the imagination of many people. She has advocated the boycott as a means of protesting against the male dominance of the Church and the treatment of women as distinctly second-class members.

SO the Catholic community in Ireland has a new champion to save them from the evils of the Roman Church – Ian Paisley.

FAR from a “kneejerk” reaction to anything critical of the Catholic Church, as alleged by Maurice Fitzgerald (Letters, February 13), I was responding (January 28) to a particular criticism levelled at the hierarchy by him.

I WAS surprised that Micheál Ó Fearghail stated that the Catholic Church has “never taught that the Pope is the head of the church” (July 23).

ARCHBISHOP of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin yesterday rejected claims that Pope Benedict XVI led a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Catholic priests.

Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin today rejected claims Pope Benedict XVI led a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Catholic priests.

A Vatican handbook made public today laid out Roman Church teaching questioning preventive war and denouncing the “horrendous crime” of abortion, but officials denied they wanted to influence the US presidential election campaign.

Ian Paisley today pledged to go into peace talks with Sinn Féin once all IRA weapons are destroyed.