Courtney McGrailJoe Carroll John Walshe had been the most experienced education correspondent in the Irish media when Ruairi Quinn asked him to join his team as a special adviser when he took over as Minister for Education in 2011. Walshe could not resist becoming poacher turned gamekeeper and now he gives an entertaining insider’s view…
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The path back to Rome
Sean Ryan This little red book of 132 pages is a gem. While telling the story of Tom Peterson, founder of the Catholics Come Home organisation, it also emphasises the duty of every baptised Catholic to use their talents to spread the Good News. Peterson was a marketing and advertising guru, whose practice of his faith…
The reality of the spiritual world
The Evidence for God: The Case for the Existence of the Spiritual Dimension by Keith Ward (Darton, Longman & Todd, £9.99).
Turning the brothers grimm on their heads
Aubrey MaloneFairytales begin with ‘Once upon a time’ and end with ‘And they all lived happily ever after.’ Right? Wrong. I mentioned this film last week in my preview of the January releases. I’ve now seen it and can confirm it’s going to be one of the most talked-about movies of 2015, not that it will be everyone’s cup…
Out with the old and in with the new
Brendan O’Regan‘New Year’s Day saw the launch of the UTV Ireland channel and I thought it was rather low key… Maybe they didn’t want to raise expectations too high’, writes Brendan O’Regan
Ireland’s very troubled relations with the Vatican during the post-war years
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Vol. IX 1948-1951 ed. by Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning and Michael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy, €50.00)
Seeking a new basic theology
Rethinking Fundamental Theology by Gerald O’Collins, SJ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, £18.99 paperback; also available in hardback, £37.99).
Altruism wasn’t always a money-spinner for Ireland
Peter CostelloThere was little generosity in the early days of the Irish Free State
Christmas among the Eastern Christians
‘It is a complicated scene, and one largely unfamiliar to western Catholics’, writes Peter Costello
Cyber-slums where abusers prowl need pastoral care – Vatican
A new kind of ghetto needs the Church’s presence and people’s solidarity: the “digital slum” where cyberbullying and online pornography and abuse run rampant, said speakers at a recent Vatican news conference. Online harassment and abuse are “a new form of violence” against many young people and children, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the…