Person: Paul Kokoski

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Only a Catholic can have a conscience

Regarding Pope Francis’ comments on atheists and heaven, (Irish Examiner, Sept 12), let me say that celibacy has a spiritual dimension that transcends discipline.

Holy Week prompts us to follow the path of Jesus

Bieber victim of his own popularity and music

Animal life is precious

Keeping Christ in Christmas is important

Pope John Paul II was an inspiration to all

The real meaning of St Patrick’s Day

FOR most people St Patrick’s Day is a day of parades, parties, leprechauns and green beer. But just as Christmas is about more than commercialised fun, so too does St Patrick’s Day have a deeper meaning.

Thu, 17 Mar, 2011

Rap for Benedict

I WAS baffled by the decision of the Catholic Church authorities in Britain to have a rap song serve as the “youth anthem” during the papal visit there.

Mon, 20 Sep, 2010

Outlawing symbol of the essence of Christianity

I WISH to express my disappointment with the European Court of Human Rights for ruling that crucifixes should be removed from Italian public schools.

Tue, 10 Nov, 2009

Progress becomes blind and destructive when it denies that life begins at conception

IN his letter (November 17), Con Hayes is incorrect in claiming that it “never will be possible to say with absolute precision when a foetus becomes a person”.

Mon, 24 Nov, 2008

Clergy should follow Pope’s lead on communion

IN response to the letter from Pat Swords headlined ‘Pope’s wrong move on giving out communion’ (July 5), I must say I have never heard of anyone ever contracting germs from a priest while receiving holy communion on the tongue.

Mon, 21 Jul, 2008

Not a potential life, but a life with potential

SEFERIN JAMES (Letters, January 28) is logically, theologically, medically and scientifically incorrect in arguing that abortion is not murder.

Mon, 18 Feb, 2008

Media must build trust by serving the truth

FREEDOM of the press is not only about government oppression and censorship.

Sat, 29 Dec, 2007

Let’s keep the crib at centre of Christmas

IN 1223, St Francis of Assisi simply and joyfully commemorated the scene of the nativity according to the infancy Gospel, and the crib thus became one of the traditional and best-loved symbols of Christmas.

Sat, 08 Dec, 2007

Latin Mass would give the faithful a better understanding of liturgy

I WELCOME Pope Benedict’s decision to loosen restrictions on the use of the Latin Mass. Vatican II, in fact, never called for the elimination of Latin. The Pope’s decision, therefore, is meant to foster a more comprehensive and profound understanding of the Church’s liturgy.

Mon, 24 Sep, 2007

Amnesty falls victim to ‘distorted rationale’

I WISH to commend the Vatican and, more recently, Catholic Bishop Michael Evans of East Anglia for condemning Amnesty International’s pro-abortion policy. Amnesty has fallen victim to a distorted rationale that tends to place a higher priority on human suffering than on life itself.

Sat, 25 Aug, 2007

Pope never tried to cover up scandal

IN his letter headlined ‘Selective responses’, Dick Keane (July 14) claims, incorrectly, that Benedict XVI was the “chief architect” of the child sex abuse scandal. The Pope never imposed any “pontifical secrecy”.

Mon, 30 Jul, 2007

Moral intolerance

PAUL KOKOSKI (‘Euthanasia a rejection of God’, Letters, June 11) calls suffering part of a “loving plan” and condemns euthanasia as being against the natural instinct to live.

Tue, 19 Jun, 2007

Euthanasia a rejection of God

IN the context of Jack “Dr Death” Kevorkian’s release from prison, our present culture tends to consider suffering the epitome of evil. There is a great temptation to resolve the problem of suffering by eliminating it at the root, by hastening death so it occurs at the moment considered most suitable.

Mon, 11 Jun, 2007

Early church did not have celibate leadership

THE letter from Paul Kokoski of Hamilton, Ontario (Irish Examiner, November 27) cannot be allowed to pass unanswered.

Tue, 05 Dec, 2006

Violence in the name of religion rejected

I WISH to commend Pope Benedict XVI for having the courage to express what modern man rarely has in practice the foresight to acknowledge, namely that “violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul”.

Tue, 19 Sep, 2006

Middle East violence a result of injustices

TERRORISM is a show of inhumane ferocity that will never be able to solve conflicts among human beings.

Fri, 28 Jul, 2006

Adult stem cell research acceptable

I COMMEND the Irish Catholic Bishops for condemning the decision of the European Union to approve tax spending on embryonic stem-cell research.

Tue, 20 Jun, 2006

Sexual abstinence the only answer to Aids

THE Catholic Church’s prohibition on contraception is irreversible despite Cardinal Carlo Martini’s recent claim that condoms are the lesser evil in combating the spread of Aids.

Mon, 15 May, 2006

Gay couples often more committed

WHAT does Paul Kokoski (Irish Examiner letters, January 10) know about gay relationships? Most gay people don’t have children, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t in love.

Mon, 16 Jan, 2006

Few countries endorse same-sex marriages

I WISH to reply to the letter from Ian McGahon headlined ‘Same-sex marriage: the civilised world view’ (Irish Examiner, January 7).

Tue, 10 Jan, 2006

Same-sex marriage: the ‘civilised world’ view

PAUL KOKOSKI claims the UK is out of touch with the rest of the “civilised world” by allowing legal recognition for same-sex relationships (Irish Examiner letters, December 28).

Sat, 07 Jan, 2006

Same-sex marriage: the Canadian experience

YOUR correspondent Paul Kokoski condemns civil unions in Britain and Northern Ireland (Irish Examiner letters, December 28).

Fri, 06 Jan, 2006

Same-sex marriages contrary to natural law

BY allowing same-sex couples legal recognition of their relationship, Northern Ireland and Britain have shown they are out of touch with the rest of the civilised world.

Wed, 28 Dec, 2005

Media have little interest in truth

I REFER to the letter headlined ‘Why journalists sometimes treat priests unfairly: an incomplete thesis” by Joseph Barry (Irish Examiner, November 1).

Mon, 07 Nov, 2005

Pope shows how to defeat terrorism

I COMMEND Pope Benedict XVI for his message in Germany calling on Christianity and Islam to work together to end terrorism which, he said, represented “the darkness of a new barbarism.”

Mon, 29 Aug, 2005

How the Church has changed its tune on sexual morality

MANY Catholics think the church has never changed its teaching on many moral issues, and argue that its teachings are “based on a correct understanding of the human according to unchanging natural moral law” (Paul Kokoski, Irish Examiner letters, June 18).

Mon, 27 Jun, 2005