I’ll Drop You A Line: A Life With David Marcus by Ita Daly (Londubh Books. €14.99)
A talented man of words and nurturer of writers
Month: July 2016
Focusing on the family
Mags Gargan
Knock shrine’s Family Focus Week will begin at midday on July 9 with a blessing of young children at Knock Basilica, launching a programme of events to support and encourage families in all aspects of family life. The programme will include workshops on topics as diverse as addiction, worry, parenting, grief, and faith transmission, while…
Making a home for Jesus
Peter Costello
The Bethany We Know: Exploring Relationship in the Company of Jesus by Penny Roker RSM (Veritas, £12.99)
Uplifted by music and Mother Nature
Brendan O’Regan
I picked a good week to dip in to iWitness, RTÉ 1’s nightly reflection programme, described as ‘the spirit of Ireland, one voice and one minute at a time’. Bro. Anthony from Glenstal Abbey started the week with a poetic reflection on God’s work in Nature. Working in the forest he found that God speaks…
A round-up of this year’s summer blockbusters
Aubrey Malone
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Written by Jennifer Saunders and directed by Mandie Fletcher, this highly-awaited film version of the hit TV sitcom that ran intermittently from 1992 to 2012 features Saunders and Joanne Lumley as two good-time girls living the high life in London when they run into trouble at a launch party and have…
We need better tools for handling our grandiosity
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
We live in a world wherein most everything over-stimulates our grandiosity, even as we are handed less and less tools to deal with that. Several years ago, Robert L. Moore wrote a very significant book, Facing the Dragon. The dragon that most threatens us, he believes, is the dragon of our own grandiosity, that sense…
The desire for happiness
Cathal Barry
The beatitude we are promised, according to the Church, confronts us with decisive moral choices, writes Cathal Barry
A firebrand for the Phillipines
Paul Keenan
The new presidency bodes ill for the Church, writes Paul Keenan
Egypt’s Christians already have a Saviour – they need a friend
John L. Allen Jr.In his 1975 ballad Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen tells his imaginary paramour that she can either waste her summer “praying in vain for a saviour to rise from these streets,” or seize the realistic if flawed option in front of her, i.e. him. While no one probably would tout the Boss as an expert on the Middle…
Society of St Pius X snubs Vatican
The breakaway Society of St Pius X appears to have abandoned hopes of reuniting with the Vatican with a statement rejecting the need for recognition from Rome for its existence while voicing criticism of the Pope for “errors” in Church teaching. The statement, made in the name of Bishop Bernard Fellay, the current superior general…