Speaking from Within: Biblical Approaches for Effective Preaching by Kieran J O’Mahony OSA (Veritas, €12.99)
Category: Reviews
Recent books in brief
A Chosen Race, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation: Aspects of Priesthood and Baptism edited by Joseph Briody (Smenos Publications, €25.00 plus p+p) This is the eighth publication in the Fota Liturgy Series, the outcome of the regular Fota Conferences, which have drawn select liturgists from all over Europe. The editor is both a priest…
A lady with a head for heights… and business
The Story of Ireland’s Only Steeplejill by Angela Collins O’Mahony (Mercier Press, €19.99)
Light in darkest Africa
Uganda: My Mission by Fr Damien Grimes MHM (Published by the author, Llanwrst, Wales, €9.40; available on Amazon.co.uk)
Escaping the web – or learning to live with it
“This place diminishes us all,” wrote Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson of Twitter just over a week back. Announcing after a row with a colleague and following yet another interminable barrage of abuse from people who had found his politics insufficiently ‘pure’ for their purposes that he would be quitting the social media platform, he said:…
The last of the priest’s houskeepers
The World of Books
Summer of love for a Strasbourg Tomboy
Baden Baden
A journey of lives lost and saved
Robert Duvall is one of my favourite American actors so I was glad to see him interviewed on The World Over Live (EWTN) last Thursday afternoon. Presenter Raymond Arroyo was well informed on Duvall’s films and had some acting experience himself which helped when they discussed various acting coaches and styles. I had forgotten…
The Reformation and its consequences revisited
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmuid MacCulloch (Allen and Lane, £25.00)
Redcoats on the Curragh of Kildare
Soldiers of the Short Grass: A History of the Curragh Camp by Dan Harvey (Merrion Press, €14.99)