Paul KeenanDialogue of the Heart: Christian Muslim Stories of Encounter by Fr Martin McGee OSB (Veritas, €12.99)
Category: Reviews
Ambushes, close escapes and the ‘execution of spies’
Courtney McGrail“The men will talk to me”: West Cork interviews by Ernie O’Malley ed. Andy Bielenberg, John Borgonovo and Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (Mercier Press, €16.99)
St Teresa of Avila’s way to God
St Teresa and the Our Father: A Catechism of Prayer Aloysius Rego OCD (Teresian Press, £6.00)
A lament for a Greece in turmoil
Greece Through Irish Eyes by Richard Pine (Liffey Press, €22.95)
A world of resources we should know about on the ‘sixth continent’
“Hell hath no fury like a Catholic scorned on Twitter,” as someone once remarked, and there’s no getting away from the fact that the Catholic internet can sometimes seem like a strange and overheated place. It’s perhaps not surprising that it can become unbearable when collective discernment exercises like the synod cause excitable commentators to…
The struggle for black power against bigoted regime
Aubrey MaloneThe Black Panthers (PG)
Christian persecution neglected by media
Brendan O’ReganThis week’s programming provided a great platform for religious discussion, writes Brendan O’Regan
“Bare ruin’d choirs” and the future of the Church
Abandoned Churches of Ireland by Tarquin Blake (The Collins Press, €27.99) Medieval Ecclesiastical Buildings, 1789-1915: Building on the Past by Niamh NicGhabhann (Four Courts Press, €55)
An Irish biographer takes a look at Jesus
A Jesus Biography by Anthony J. Jordan (Wesportbooks, €17.50)
An Ulster preacher’s powerful words
Preaching in Belfast, 1747-72 – A Selection of the Sermons of James Saurin ed. by Raymond Gillespie & Riobeard Ó Gallachóir (Four Courts Press, €49.50)