Celebrating the Eucharist: Sacrifice and Communion ed. Gerard Deighan (Smenos, €20.00 + p&p / £16.30 approx + p&p; from www.smenospublications.com) Benedict XVI and the Roman Missal, ed. Janet E. Rutherford and James O’Brien (Four Courts Press, €30 / £25)  I began thinking about this review on that recent Sunday when the two Popes were canonised.…

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This brief little book is a simply presented book with one simple aim, to make the word of God accessible and meaningful in the daily lives of his readers. A Dominican since 1959, he has served in many roles abroad and in Ireland, but is currently at the Biblical Institute in Limerick, where he is…

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It ought to be said straight off that this is an excellent little book, which should prove to be both enlightening and heartening to those who read it. Donagh O’Shea OP is the director of the Dominican Retreat House in Tallaght. He the author of other books, such as Take Nothng for the Journey and…

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Aimed an teenage readers weaned on video games and television, this is a spy novel for younger teenagers which moves from a conventional Dublin day school into the world of international espionage in which a group are given placements in The Planet Earthy Academy, which aims at training future protectors of the planet. Their first…

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