The scriptures are where we meet the Mother of God, writes Fr Martin Browne OSB
Courtney McGrail
News of the late lamented Bible society shop
Many serious readers of religious books, both historical and theological, from all Christian traditions, will have lamented the recent sudden overnight closure of the National Bible Society ‘Bestseller book shop’ (pictured) at 41 Dawson Street, Dublin, in which (so I understood) the Catholic Hierarchy also had a share. The closure was never explained to the…
President must uphold the Constitution
Dear Editor, Several newspapers have now drawn attention to the remarks of Mrs Sabina Higgins calling for the introduction of abortion. I am indebted to your letter-writer Ms Josephine O’Brien (IC 12/05/2016) for being amongst the first to do so. Some papers have downplayed the incident. One such paper headed its editorial “A word of…
World News in Brief
Vatican Bank is ‘clean’ – director general The Vatican Bank is now “absolutely clean”, according to its director general, who says it is now “impossible to launder money” through the institution. Gian Franco Mammi made the claim following the publication of the 2015 report for the bank, officially known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR). According to the…
Church’s capacity to ‘wage peace’
Dear Editor, Further to the article by David Quinn in the May 5 issue ‘The Church must keep just war theory’, I wish to take issue with the defence of such a theory. With reference to how Hitler led the German aggressive invasion of Poland in 1939 and the subsequent World War II in which more…
The Sacrament of Matrimony
The Church teaches that man and woman were created for one another, writes Cathal Barry
Sabina Higgins cannot speak as a private citizen
Dear Editor, Sabina Higgins is not a private citizen, she is the wife of the President of Ireland and therefore everything she does and says must be viewed as a reflection on the office of the president. To express an opinion which falls on either side of an issue that will most likely be the…
Criticism of veneration of Our Lady
Dear Editor, The Redemptorists in Ireland are celebrating the 150th anniversary of when the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help was given into their care for veneration. The icon has been taken to various parishes around the country, and questions have been raised about the ‘Marymobile’ carrying the icon being “paraded” on a tour…
Women of the Troubles
Richmond Barracks 1916: ‘We Were There’ — 77 Women of the Easter Rising edited by Mary McAuliffe and Liz Gillis (Dublin City Council Decade of Commemorations Series, Four Courts Press, €24.95)
A backward look at the men who made us
The Shaping of Modern Ireland – A Centenary Assessment edited by Eugenio Biagini and Daniel Mulhall (Irish Academic Press, €22.50pb/€45.00hb).