Studies Summer 2016. Special Issue: Freedom of Speech. How Far Can You Go? (Messenger Publications, €10.00)
Can we say what we like, when we like?
Category: Reviews
The little lessons of life are very important too
Peter Costello
Life Lessons: Fifty Things I Learned in My First Fifty Years by Patrick Madrid (Ignatius Press / Augustine Institute, US$16.95; also available as a eBook download; or by order from Veritas)
Plunkett – an enigmatic revolutionary
Enigmas of Sacrifice: A critique of Joseph M. Plunkett and the Dublin insurrection of 1916 by W.J. McCormack (Michigan State University Press, €20.16 pb / €43.91hb)
Nurturing the seeds of Mercy
With World Youth Day behind us nowadays, the question obviously is “what’s next?” The Catholic youth festival is clearly an extraordinarily enthusing time, loaded with spiritual, catechetical, evangelising and social content, but most realistic Catholics recognise that if our youth ministry is directed solely towards such marquee events without looking beyond them, then the seeds…
Aquatic odyssey yields an assortment of riches
Aubrey Malone
Finding Dory (G)
It was the best of times, the worst of times
Brendan O’Regan
I was having a relaxing Tuesday morning last week when news of the killing of a priest near Rouen came through as breaking news early on The Pat Kenny Show (Newstalk), with an up to date report soon after from journalist Lara Marlowe. It had been a terrible few weeks for atrocities and this one…
Do evil and suffering serve a purpose for Christians?
Where is God in Suffering? by Brendan Purcell (Veritas, €12.99) God You’re Breaking My Heart: What is God’s Response to Suffering & Evil by Brian Grogan SJ (Messenger Publications, €9.99)
Draw your own conclusions to many-coloured Bible mysteries
The Heavens and the Earth: Colour your way through the Bible’s most beautiful Verses Created by Stu McLellan (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
Cries from the rubble of the Rising
Voices from the Easter Rising, Ruán O’Donnell and Mícheál Ó hAodha (Merrion Press 2016)
An Ulster poet lost to sight
Louis MacNeice: In A Between World by Christopher J. Fauske (Irish Academic Press, €29.99pb / €70.00hb)