We need to take time out from our busy lives to allow space for reflection and renewal, writes Norman Drummond
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Gospel-inspired social justice at work
Emily Massey, Kia Hayes and Alison Rae describe their work with the St Vincent de Paul
The many sides of an Irish intellectual
The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual by Tom Garvin (Irish Academic Press, €24.99 pb / €70.00 hb)
Writers rereading the Rising
In The Wake of The Rising: A Special edition of The Stinging Fly edited by Sean O’Reilly (Issue 33, Volume Two, €15)
Real life at the local level
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny 1190-1610: Custom and conflict in a baronial town by Adrian Empey The middle class of Callan, Co Kilkenny 1825-45 by Pierce A. Grace Crime in the city: Kilkenny in 1845 by Fergal Donoghue (Maynooth Studies in Local History / Four Courts Press, €9.95 each)
Feeding the rage of the Catholic blogosphere
Conspiracy-minded Catholics are up in arms online after claims that Pope Francis’ long awaited post-synodal exhortation was ghost-written by an old Argentinian friend. Writing at chiesa.expressonline.it, long-time Vaticanista Sandro Magister, whose press credentials were withdrawn by the Holy See last year after his involvement in publishing in advance a leaked version of the Pope’s environmental…
Battling an ego crisis in the Church
Dear Editor, Two items in your May 19 issue highlight a major problem in our parishes – the case of the lay reader in Cork and the couple who wanted to be married in a pretty church. Both smack of individualism and moral relativism (basically an ego crisis in the Church) which Francis, Benedict and…
Was Christ unaware of coelics?
Dear Editor, I wonder if Laurena O’Donoghue (Letters 12/05/16) is aware of the profound implications for the use of special bread for coelics at Mass? In order to avail of this proposed accommodation one has to refuse the sacred host in the first place as a harmful substance. Is this an oversight which Christ wasn’t…
Keep calm and pray on
Dear Editor, The findings of a current survey undertaken by British Social Attitudes shows that, in 2014, 48.5% of Britons say they are of ‘no religion’ – almost doubling the 25% statistic found in 2011. According to an analysis of the survey by St Mary’s Catholic University in Twickenham, the Anglican church in Britain is…
Claim that surrogacy would be ‘final blow’ against Italian family
The legalisation of surrogacy would be “the final blow” against the family in Italian law, the head of Italy’s bishops’ conference has said, saying surrogacy “exploits the female body” and profits from the poverty of women. Addressing members of the bishops’ conference, Genoa’s Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said under a new law civil unions are implicitly…