I was saddened to learn that the Capuchin Day Centre had been singled out for criticism by a Sunday newspaper in an apparent attempt to build on the disturbing financial news coming from the Central Remedial Clinic. The mistake made by the paper in question – if it was a mistake – was to assume…
Month: January 2014
Defending the Capuchin Day Centre
Dear Editor, How relieved I was when, just ahead of Christmas I read in The Irish Catholic the defence – against the worst intentions of a secular Sunday newspaper – of the work of the Capuchin Day Centre and the entirely unpaid role played by Br Kevin Crowley over many years in providing for the…
Authority guarantees unity in the Church
Dear Editor, I do hope that Fr Gabriel Daly’s attack on Cardinal Levada (IC Letters 12/12/13) will not go unanswered. It is not likely that Cardinal Levada will be reading the letters in your paper. But someone should point out that Fr Gabriel avoided any specific details as to why the cardinal did act as he…
On the dangers of defining ourselves
We need to know our real centres, writes Fr Rolheiser
The horrors of captivity
A affecting tale with a top-notch cast, writes Aubrey Malone
Between Heaven and mirth
The Bible mini-series was a joy, writes Brendan O’Regan
Marking Twelfth Night
This week has seen the passing of Twelfth Night, on the eve of the Epiphany, the feast celebrating the visit of the Wise Men to the birthplace of Jesus. Traditionally this marked, not so much the realisation of Jesusís divinity, as the end of the long winter season, the first tremor of spring perhaps, the…
The Other Side of the Story
Unheard Story: Dublin Archdiocese and The Murphy Report, by Pádraig McCarthy (Londubh Books, €14.99 / £17.99; ISBN 9781907535352)
The people and the Fourth Estate
Democracy and Media Decadence, by John Keane (Cambridge University Press, €21.58 pb / £17.99)
The many faces of C. S. Lewis
The A-Z of C. S. Lewis, by Colin Duriez (Lion Hudson, £14.99 / €17.99)

Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Aubrey Malone
Brendan O’Regan
Peter Costello