The Church Always in Need of Reform by Gabriel Daly OSA (Dominican Publications, €19.99)

Centenary Classics Series edited by Fearghal McGarry with special introductions by others to each volume (UCD Press, €60 the set of six)

The 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…

How to Pray the Secret Rosary by Frank M. Rega OFS (CreateSpace, £9.27pb).

After writing recently about the Battle of Verdun and the literature of the Great War, I decided that as the anniversary of the Somme would be well marked by State and media, no reference to it would be needed here. But my mind has been changed by the publication of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into…