Peter CostelloThe Poet’s Quest for God: an anthology of 21st Century poems of faith, doubt and wonder ed. by Fr Oliver Brennan and Todd Swift, with Kelly Davio and Cate Myddleton Evans, with an introduction by Dr Ewan Fernie (Eyewear Publishing / Signature Books, £24.99. Distributed by Central Books in the UK and Ireland.)
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Some morning thoughts from Pope Francis…
Morning Homilies III by Pope Francis, translated by Dinah Livingstone (Orbis Books / Alban Books, £11.99)
New light on the first industrial schools
Courtney McGrailThe committal of two Mallow children to an Industrial school in 1893 by Martin McCarthy (Four Courts Press, €9.95)
The triumph of the spirit over power
A Prayer Before Dawn: A Nightmare in Thailand by Billy Moore (Maverick Press, €9.99)
Living off our Christian capital
“The Bible is the first text to represent victimisation from the standpoint of the victim, and it is this representation which is responsible, ultimately, for our own superior sensibility to violence,” according to the late French philosopher-anthropologist René Girard, observing with reference to some of the Bible’s more violent passages that, “it is for biblical…
Henri Nouwen, prophet of love and kindness
Life of the Beloved & Our Greatest Gift, by Henri Nouwen (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
Catholic teaching on saving the Earth
Option for the Poor & for the Earth: From Leo XIII to Pope Francis, edited by Donal Dorr, revised edition (Orbis Books, distributed by Alban Books, £29.99)
Sir John Keane: A titled maverick
Sir John Keane and Cappoquin House in time of war and revolution, by Glascott J.R.M. Symes (Four Courts Press, €9.95)
The Muslim Schoolboy’s Prayer
The World of Books
Saviour seals sea-change in an angry charioteer
Aubrey MaloneBen-Hur (PG)