The Heavens and the Earth: Colour your way through the Bible’s most beautiful Verses Created by Stu McLellan (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
Draw your own conclusions to many-coloured Bible mysteries
Peter Costello
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)
A vision of a Church looking to the future
The Church Always in Need of Reform by Gabriel Daly OSA (Dominican Publications, €19.99)
Memoirs of the great struggles
Centenary Classics Series edited by Fearghal McGarry with special introductions by others to each volume (UCD Press, €60 the set of six)
Aspiring visions in Ireland before the Rising
Conflicting Visions in a Turbulent Age 1900-1916 by Dr Éimear O’Connor and others (Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, €10.00)
Towards new ways of Christian living
Just Living: Faith and Community in an Age of Consumerism by Ruth Valerio (Hodder & Stoughton, £13.99)
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 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)
Making a home for Jesus
The Bethany We Know: Exploring Relationship in the Company of Jesus by Penny Roker RSM (Veritas, £12.99)
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…