Voices from the Easter Rising, Ruán O’Donnell and Mícheál Ó hAodha (Merrion Press 2016)
Cries from the rubble of the Rising
Month: August 2016
Draw your own conclusions to many-coloured Bible mysteries
Peter Costello
The Heavens and the Earth: Colour your way through the Bible’s most beautiful Verses Created by Stu McLellan (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
Do evil and suffering serve a purpose for Christians?
Where is God in Suffering? by Brendan Purcell (Veritas, €12.99) God You’re Breaking My Heart: What is God’s Response to Suffering & Evil by Brian Grogan SJ (Messenger Publications, €9.99)
It was the best of times, the worst of times
Brendan O’Regan
I was having a relaxing Tuesday morning last week when news of the killing of a priest near Rouen came through as breaking news early on The Pat Kenny Show (Newstalk), with an up to date report soon after from journalist Lara Marlowe. It had been a terrible few weeks for atrocities and this one…
Aquatic odyssey yields an assortment of riches
Aubrey Malone
Finding Dory (G)
SVP stalwart receives papal honour
Greg Daly
John Costelloe, Tulla Rd, Ennis has been awarded a Bene Merenti award after over 55 years of involvement with the St Vincent de Paul society in Clare. The Ballygriffey native, who has worked for Clare County Council and in Shannon Development, has been involved at all levels of the society, serving as conference president and…
Our fear of Hell is a creation all of our own
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Hell is never a nasty surprise waiting for a basically happy person. Hell can only be the full-flowering of a pride and selfishness that have, through a long time, twisted a heart so thoroughly that it considers happiness as unhappiness and has an arrogant disdain for happy people. If you are essentially warm of heart…
A Samaritan transformation
Courtney McGrailSophie Overall learns how a roadside encounter rerouted Fr Alan Neville’s life towards the Sacred Heart Missionaries
Pope Francis delivers homage to John Paul II with morning of mercy
John L. Allen Jr.
With a visit Saturday morning to the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Lagiewniki and then a Mass at Krakow’s sprawling Sanctuary of St John Paul II, Pope Francis paid homage to his storied predecessor Saturday morning and to St Faustina Kowalska, whose legacies hang over his Year of Mercy. Popes pay tribute to their predecessors…
Flowers for Fr Jacques
Paul Keenan
A photo of slain Father Jacques Hamel is seen among fl owers at a makeshift memorial in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, France. Photo: CNS