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…
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…
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)
Elvis and Nixon (PG)
Brendan O’Regan is left ‘as shocked as anyone’ in the wake of the surprise victory of the Leave Campaign
Saint Oliver Plunkett: Journey to Sainthood by Tommy Burns (St Oliver Plunkett for Peace and Reconciliation Committee, €10.00)
Peter Costello
Aubrey Malone
Brendan O’Regan