Predictably, Cardinal Robert Sarah’s comments at the recent Sacra Liturgia conference in London have met with widespread debate and even heated disagreement online, so much so that Durban’s Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has tweeted from his @CardinalNapier account: “Cardinal Sarah addresses a meeting in London on subject no one has been consulted on, and everyone is…
Central Intelligence (12A)
A spooky BBC drama has Brendan O’Regan is engrossed in “a hot bed of dubious spiritual activity”
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Written by Jennifer Saunders and directed by Mandie Fletcher, this highly-awaited film version of the hit TV sitcom that ran intermittently from 1992 to 2012 features Saunders and Joanne Lumley as two good-time girls living the high life in London when they run into trouble at a launch party and have…
I picked a good week to dip in to iWitness, RTÉ 1’s nightly reflection programme, described as ‘the spirit of Ireland, one voice and one minute at a time’. Bro. Anthony from Glenstal Abbey started the week with a poetic reflection on God’s work in Nature. Working in the forest he found that God speaks…
The Bethany We Know: Exploring Relationship in the Company of Jesus by Penny Roker RSM (Veritas, £12.99)
I’ll Drop You A Line: A Life With David Marcus by Ita Daly (Londubh Books. €14.99)
Signatories edited by Lucy Collins (UCD Press, € 20.00)
Books over the centuries have taken many forms. Indeed some kinds of books do not have to have any narrative to be most revealing. I came across one of these a little while ago in an Oxfam shop, a green cloth-bound item for which I see I paid 39 cents. The title page revealed that…
Elvis and Nixon (PG)
Peter Costello
Aubrey Malone
Brendan O’Regan