Paul KeenanThe pain and glory of the cathedrals
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Aquatic odyssey yields an assortment of riches
Aubrey Malone
Finding Dory (G)
Do evil and suffering serve a purpose for Christians?
Peter Costello
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)
Draw your own conclusions to many-coloured Bible mysteries
The Heavens and the Earth: Colour your way through the Bible’s most beautiful Verses Created by Stu McLellan (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
Cries from the rubble of the Rising
Voices from the Easter Rising, Ruán O’Donnell and Mícheál Ó hAodha (Merrion Press 2016)
An Ulster poet lost to sight
Louis MacNeice: In A Between World by Christopher J. Fauske (Irish Academic Press, €29.99pb / €70.00hb)
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)
Recent books in brief
Courtney McGrailThe God of Mercy, The God of the Gospels by Peter McVerry SJ (Veritas, €9.99) Fr McVerry will need no introduction to any reader. This book was written to celebrate 2016, not in the revolutionary sense, but as the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. But in its own it is a revolutionary text. Mercy may…
A new way with the Rosary
How to Pray the Secret Rosary by Frank M. Rega OFS (CreateSpace, £9.27pb).