Peter CostelloWhere the Heart Is: How the Gospel Transforms Our Lives by Bishop Donal Murray (Veritas, €12.99)
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Women of the Troubles
Courtney McGrailRichmond Barracks 1916: ‘We Were There’ — 77 Women of the Easter Rising edited by Mary McAuliffe and Liz Gillis (Dublin City Council Decade of Commemorations Series, Four Courts Press, €24.95)
Some commentators accused of cherry- picking Pope’s words
The satirical Catholic website eyeofthetiber.com could hardly have reacted more snidely to reports that Pope Francis has called for a commission to investigate the possibility of ordaining women deacons than with the headline, “Pope To Commission Study To Find More Ways He Can Confuse People”. Claiming that the Pontiff had revealed “an openness to re-examining…
Waiting for royalty in the Arabian desert heat
Aubrey MaloneA Hologram for the King (15A)
Is Jesus the new taboo subject in classrooms?
God’s Not Dead 2 (PG)
Celebrating imagination and literature
Brendan O’ReganBrendan O’Regan is moved by a “touching piece about the late Fr Michael Paul Gallagher SJ”
The last days of mankind?
Revelation Road: One Man’s Journey to the Heart of the Apocalypse and Back Again by Nick Page (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
The taboos of modern death
The Way We Die Now by Seamus O’Mahony (Head of Zeus, £14.99)
The universe and Katharina Kepler
The Astronomer & the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight for his mother by Ulinka Rublack (Oxford University Press, £20.00)
Comparing Shakespeare, Cervantes & Rabelais
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