Brendan O’ReganUsually you have to wait for the new season to find some good new dramas, but BBC One got off to an interesting but early start Tuesday of last week with an intriguing new crime drama, One of Us. It was all a bit confusing at first with an array of seemingly unrelated characters, but…
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Seven hundred saints for today
Peter CostelloBlessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses by Robert Ellsberg (Liturgical Press, distributed by the Norwich Press, £19.99)
A prisoner of the Emperor at the first ‘ground zero’
Courtney McGrailA Doctor’s Sword: How an Irish Doctor Survived War, Captivity, and the Atomic Bomb by Bob Jackson (Collins Press, € 22.99)
Growing up in Troubled Derry
This Man’s Wee Boy: A Childhood Memory of Peace and Trouble in Derry by Tony Doherty (Mercier Press, €12.99)
Catholics and the Bible – take it as read
World of books
Simple and beautiful, an inspirational book for all
Soulfulness: Deepening the Mindful Life by Brian Draper (Hodder & Stoughton, £13.99)
Is the rule of the robots coming?
Thinking Machines: The Inside Story of Artificial Intelligence and Our Race to Build the Future by Luke Dormehl (W H Allen. £14.99)
Brothers in Arms
The Hales Brothers and the Irish Revolution by Liz Gillis (Mercier Press 2016)
Pictures from the past
Father Browne’s Titanic Album: A Passenger’s Photographs and Personal Memoir, by E. E. O’Donnell, foreword by Dr Robert D. Ballard (Messenger Publications, €16.99)
Evangelical Catholicism and the future of the Church
In the aftermath of 2011’s World Youth Day in Madrid, John Allen attempted to discern at ncronline.org what the phenomenon of World Youth Day says about the future of the Church. Entitled ‘Big Picture at World Youth Day: “It’s the Evangelicals, Stupid!”’, the article identifies evangelical Catholicism as a potent force coursing through the modern…