Aubrey MaloneA season of classics opens in Dublin
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‘One of Us’ campaign to become network
The hugely successful One of Us online campaign is to continue defending the right to life. The popular initiative to protect human embryos that gathered over 2 million signatures will now become a network. ëOne of Usí was one of the first registered European citizensí initiatives (ECI) in the European Union, and according to the initiativeís…
Recollections of 1913
Peter Costello100 Years Later: The Legacy of the 1913 Lock-Out, edited by Mary Muldowney with Ida Milne (Seven Towers, €12.99/£10.99)
The many faces of C. S. Lewis
The A-Z of C. S. Lewis, by Colin Duriez (Lion Hudson, £14.99 / €17.99)
The people and the Fourth Estate
Democracy and Media Decadence, by John Keane (Cambridge University Press, €21.58 pb / £17.99)
The Other Side of the Story
Unheard Story: Dublin Archdiocese and The Murphy Report, by Pádraig McCarthy (Londubh Books, €14.99 / £17.99; ISBN 9781907535352)
Marking Twelfth Night
This week has seen the passing of Twelfth Night, on the eve of the Epiphany, the feast celebrating the visit of the Wise Men to the birthplace of Jesus. Traditionally this marked, not so much the realisation of Jesusís divinity, as the end of the long winter season, the first tremor of spring perhaps, the…
Between Heaven and mirth
Brendan O’ReganThe Bible mini-series was a joy, writes Brendan O’Regan
The horrors of captivity
A affecting tale with a top-notch cast, writes Aubrey Malone
Words of Mercy and Joy, Pope Francis (Veritas, €4.99/£4.25)
This little booklet assembles some the Popeís orbiter dicta since his election, with comments on the Church, on the sacraments, on Our Lady, on the role of women in the Church, and insightful comments on himself and his earlier experiences as a leader, and how he, as an admitted sinner, has learnt from those experiences. …