Person: Fr Con McGillicuddy

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Orphans deserve our assistance

The headline on Fr Con McGillicuddy’s recent letter (Mar 13) says that “Retired religious deserve a break”.

Clerical criminals must be punished too

Where is the ‘evidence’ that one religion is right and all the others are wrong?

The godless delusion, flights of fancy and pointless questions

Non-believers will never believe without evidence — even if the plane is going down

Why life is more than an accident

THE letter from Fr Con McGillicuddy (September 17) generated some sharp criticism — yet the basic principle he enunciated is entirely correct.

Wed, 03 Oct, 2007

Question of belief

IT was sad to see Fr Con McGillicuddy (Letters, September 17) taking such ridicule from some letter-writers.

Mon, 01 Oct, 2007

Newton and Einstein made sense of it all and the grand design theory is just a load of nonsense

NOT idly did Richard Dawkins include the word ‘delusion’ in the title of his latest bestseller, The God Delusion.

Thu, 20 Sep, 2007

Crystal-clear case for a well-ordered universe

THE logic in Fr Con McGillicuddy’s argument for a designed universe (Letters, September 17) is actually very difficult to see. There are a number of problems with his argument.

Thu, 20 Sep, 2007

Old heresy used to make case for divine designer

I FOUND it gently amusing to read Fr Con McGillicuddy’s argument for a grand design based supposedly on a ‘commonsense’ view of the annual motion of planet earth and its supposed benefits for us lucky humans (Letters, September 17).

Thu, 20 Sep, 2007

Tide turns against idea of a caring creator

IF Fr Con McGillicuddy wishes to present “simple but cogent arguments” for the existence of an all-powerful designer, he’ll have to do better than his homily (Letters, September 17) in which he asserts that the earth has been journeying around the sun every 365½ days for millions of years.

Thu, 20 Sep, 2007

‘Intelligent design’ and ungodly persecutors

IN HIS letter making the case against Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion, Fr Con McGillicuddy (Letters, September 17) says that “commonsense provides irrefutable evidence, based on simple but cogent arguments” for a grand design by a “benign and caring creator”.

Wed, 19 Sep, 2007

Pope who preferred his enemy’s enemy

THE defence of Pius XII by Fr Con McGillicuddy (Irish Examiner letters, October 12) ignores the contrast in the Pope’s behaviour as between Hitler and Stalin.

Tue, 17 Oct, 2006