Category: Reviews

Walk with Me into the Light: Some Comfort on the Journey through Grief by Margaret T. Naughton (Sacred Heart Messenger Publications, €3.99)   This brief brochure is intended to provide immediate comfort to the grieving in a difficult time of transition. The loss of a loved one can be a very traumatic experience, one of the…

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Compasses to help hesitant Christians find their way on what Pope Benedict called “the sixth continent” of the internet aren’t in short supply, but among the more concise recent ones has been a piece entitled ‘10 commandments for social media’ posted by one Jonty Langley on premierchristianity.com. Opening with the caveat that his commandments “are…

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Books Editor The other week our reviewer discussed how Mártin Ó Cadhain, in writing his celebrated novel Cré na Cille, resorted to creating new words in Irish to express his meaning. In this he had many precedents, such as William Shakespeare. But words are odd things.  Recently it was reported that the rapper Eminem has the…

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