Courtney McGrailCatholic aid groups have challenged European plans for tough measures to curb the flow of migrants and refugees across the Mediterranean, urging a more humanitarian response. European governments are “at least partly responsible” for conditions in Libya and other countries, because of past interventions, and should be doing more to promote stable development there, according…
Month: May 2015
History in the making
Paul KeenanThe Church in Vietnam is growing but not yet secure, writes Paul Keenan
RCIA programme gave parish authentic experience
Colette Furlong Lent this year was like no other I’ve known. As the catechist in a cluster of parishes we spend quite some time every year deciding what programme of faith formation we will offer for the seven weeks, but we could have done without one had we simply embraced as parishes the original Lenten…
Laying claim to Blake’s poetry
The World of Books
Disasters on the home front in WWI
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a disaster on the Kent marshes by Brian Dillon (Penguin Books, £18.99)
The Evangelical view of marriage
Who Owns Marriage? A Conversation about Religion, Government, Marriage, and civil Society ed. by Nick Park (Evangelical Association of Ireland, € 9.99)
The spirit of the Great Teresa
Praying with St Teresa of Avila by Jerome Lantry, OCD (Teresian Press, €7.00)
Bring back organic children
Peter CostelloCotton Wool Kids: What’s making Irish parents paranoid? by Stella O’Malley (Mercier Press, €14.99)
Emotion often triumphs over reason
Brendan O’ReganDeath! The surprising hot topic of the week, writes Brendan O’Regan
Referendum calls for careful consideration
Dear Editor, Success in the referendum for the proposal to introduce same-sex marriage in to the Irish Constitution would profoundly change the definition of marriage, a definition of an institution treasured by religious and non-religious people alike. It is important that the anomalies and ramifications integral to such a change be very carefully considered. Among…