Courtney McGrailCristiano Ronaldo revealed he “asked God” for another chance at victory with his native Portugal after losing out to Greece in the Euro 2004 final on home turf in Lisbon. “I am very happy. I have been looking for this for a long time, since 2004. I asked God for another chance at this because…
Month: July 2016
Liturgists in London seek to share a sense of direction
Peter Costello
Predictably, Cardinal Robert Sarah’s comments at the recent Sacra Liturgia conference in London have met with widespread debate and even heated disagreement online, so much so that Durban’s Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has tweeted from his @CardinalNapier account: “Cardinal Sarah addresses a meeting in London on subject no one has been consulted on, and everyone is…
Questioning received truths about the nation
Irish Adventures In Nation-Building by Bryan Fanning (Manchester University Press, £18.99)
The Abbey Theatre’s role in the making of modern Ireland
The Splendid Years: The Memoirs of an Abbey Actress and 1916 Rebel by Máire Nic Shúibhlaigh with Edward Kenny, edited by David Kenny (Dublin: New Island Books, €15.95)
The legalities of revolution
Guilty but insane: J.C. Bowen-Colthurst: Villain or Victim? by James W. Taylor (Mercier Press, €19.99)
The transforming power of word and image
Transformed by God’s Words: Discovering the Power of Lectio and Visio Divina by Stephen J. Binz, with icons painted by Ruta and Kaspars Poikans (Ave Maria Press, £11.99; distributed by Alban Books)
When fact is more frightening than fiction
Brendan O’Regan
A spooky BBC drama has Brendan O’Regan is engrossed in “a hot bed of dubious spiritual activity”
Our deepest insecurity
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Why don’t we live happier lives? Why are we forever caught up in frustrations, tensions, angers and resentments? The reasons of course are too many to name. Each day, as Jesus himself tells us, brings problems enough for the day. We’re unhappy for reasons too many to count. And yet it can be helpful to…
The dignity of the human person
Cathal BarryFreedom, according to the Church, is exercised in relationships between human beings, writes Cathal Barry
Irish nuns defy danger to stay in South Sudan
Paul KeenanLoreto sisters want to keep working