The 135th anniversary of the visions at Knock, which falls on August 21, has brought into focus the whole question of visions, apparitions and the Church’s attitude towards such private revelations, and to Marian traditions as a whole.   Knock is now numbered among the most famous visionary sites in the world, along with Lourdes…

When Dr John Watts was asked if he would write a history of the Diocese of Argyle and the Isles since its restoration as a Catholic diocese in 1878, he quickly realised that to make full sense, to extract the fullness of the history of the Faith in the highlands and islands, he would have…

Irish Episcopal Conference, (Veritas, €24/£19.99)

Capital in the Twenty First Century

The Beauty of God’s Presence in the Fathers of the Church.

Frederick Douglass in Ireland: The Black O’Connell

Looking at the Middle East as “the cradle of Christianity”

A selection for summer reading

This is a debut novel, but one which has been widely praised for its atmospheric treatment of the theme. The Dutch interiors, so familiar from paintings, here become the setting in the house and in the miniature doll’s house version of it, the setting for a playing out of the injunction of St Luke that…