Paul KeenanThe pain and glory of the cathedrals
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Category: Reviews
New Trekkies boldly go where the rest of us have been before
Aubrey Malone
Star Trek Beyond (12A)
Struggles in faith, redemption in soccer
Brendan O’Regan
A documentary on seminary life leaves Brendan O’Regan reflecting on the state of religious faith
A vision of a Church looking to the future
Peter CostelloThe Church Always in Need of Reform by Gabriel Daly OSA (Dominican Publications, €19.99)
Memoirs of the great struggles
Centenary Classics Series edited by Fearghal McGarry with special introductions by others to each volume (UCD Press, €60 the set of six)
Recent books in brief
Courtney McGrailThe God of Mercy, The God of the Gospels by Peter McVerry SJ (Veritas, €9.99) Fr McVerry will need no introduction to any reader. This book was written to celebrate 2016, not in the revolutionary sense, but as the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. But in its own it is a revolutionary text. Mercy may…
A new way with the Rosary
How to Pray the Secret Rosary by Frank M. Rega OFS (CreateSpace, £9.27pb).
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Maggie’s Plan (15A)
Garden paths and secret side-lines
I don’t often watch garden makeover programmes, but when I do I’m usually impressed. On Tuesday of last week I enjoyed Love Your Garden (ITV/UTV). In this series presenter Alan Titchmarch does makeovers for people with special needs in the broadest sense. Last week it was the turn of Hari Budha Maga, a former Gurkha…
Towards new ways of Christian living
Just Living: Faith and Community in an Age of Consumerism by Ruth Valerio (Hodder & Stoughton, £13.99)