Pope Francis: Life and Revolution, by Elisabetta Piqué foreword by Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley OFM Cap. (Darton, Longman & Todd, £9.99)

The World of Books by the books editor

Hold Your Head Up High: Conversations about Controversies in a Catholic Parish by Fr Patrick Delargy (Shanway Press, £10.00; contact john@shanway.com)

Bishop James Moynagh of Calabar by Colman M. Cooke (Columba Press, €24.99)

Education Matters: Readings in Pastoral Care for School Chaplains, Guidance Counsellors and Teachers edited by James O’Higgins Norman (Veritas, €19.99/£16.15)

In the Hands of the People: A New Vision of Church by Phil Brennan (Primavera Publications, €6.99)

The principle of freedom of expression – which has been violently attacked and vigorously defended over recent days – depends very much on the ability, not of those in the media, but of ordinary people, to express themselves well and clearly. Freedom of expression is not just for writers and cartoonists, for politicians and pontiffs…

There was little generosity in the early days of the Irish Free State

‘It is a complicated scene, and one largely unfamiliar to western Catholics’, writes Peter Costello