Conflicting Visions in a Turbulent Age 1900-1916 by Dr Éimear O’Connor and others (Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, €10.00)
Aspiring visions in Ireland before the Rising
Peter Costello
Towards new ways of Christian living
Just Living: Faith and Community in an Age of Consumerism by Ruth Valerio (Hodder & Stoughton, £13.99)
The transforming power of word and image
Transformed by God’s Words: Discovering the Power of Lectio and Visio Divina by Stephen J. Binz, with icons painted by Ruta and Kaspars Poikans (Ave Maria Press, £11.99; distributed by Alban Books)
Liturgists in London seek to share a sense of direction
Predictably, Cardinal Robert Sarah’s comments at the recent Sacra Liturgia conference in London have met with widespread debate and even heated disagreement online, so much so that Durban’s Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has tweeted from his @CardinalNapier account: “Cardinal Sarah addresses a meeting in London on subject no one has been consulted on, and everyone is…
The World of Books
Books over the centuries have taken many forms. Indeed some kinds of books do not have to have any narrative to be most revealing. I came across one of these a little while ago in an Oxfam shop, a green cloth-bound item for which I see I paid 39 cents. The title page revealed that…
Making a home for Jesus
The Bethany We Know: Exploring Relationship in the Company of Jesus by Penny Roker RSM (Veritas, £12.99)
The lively life of an influential and marvellous book
C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography by George M. Marsden (Princeton University Press, £16.95)
A young person’s guide to nature
Naturama: Open Your Eyes to the Wonders of Irish Nature by Michael Fewer, with illustrations by Melissa Doran (Gill Books, €22.99)
Europe and the centenaries of the Great Tragedies of 1916
With our recent concentration on the local events in Ireland in 1916 most Irish people have overlooked the centenary of some of the events in the Great War itself. The recent commemorations of both the Battle of Jutland and the Battle of Verdun, both to be counted with the first day of the Somme (a…
Language and its effect on meaning and belief
Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions by Nicholas Ostler (Bloomsbury, £20.00)