Archbishop Diarmuid Martin launches the ‘Embracing Inclusion’ conference on the pastoral care of Travellers
Month: October 2013
The hope of healing and the charity of care
Peter CostelloCaring for the Nation: A History of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, by Sr Eugene Nolan (Gill & Macmillan, €29.99 / £26.99)
Huge demand for pro-life conference exceeds space
Mags GarganPro-Life Campaign (PLC) has been moved their National Conference in Dublin to the RDS.
What coalition costs us all
The Price of Power: Inside Ireland’s Crisis Coalition, by Pat Leahy (Penguin Ireland, €17.99 / £14.99; ebook €9.99)
Big music and major debates
Brendan O’ReganTelevised debates dominated ahead of the Seanad Referendum, writes Brendan O’Regan
A Canon of rich literature
Peter Costello profiles a forgotten novelist of Catholic Ireland
Finding a third way between rigorism and laxity
David QuinnWhat Catholicism has to say about sex runs counter to the ‘ideology of choice’, writes David Quinn
Voice for the invisible
Sister Clare O’Mahony tells Martin O’Brien about being the face of Christ to prostitutes
Is Pope Francis akin to Italy’s Monarch?
Mary KennyPope Francis is developing the kind of persona, for the Italians, that a much-loved monarch can represent, writes Mary Kenny
Govt ‘lack of political will’ on child protection condemned
Paul Keenan‘Every Child Matters’ just empty rhetoric – academic