We live in a world wherein most everything over-stimulates our grandiosity, even as we are handed less and less tools to deal with that. Several years ago, Robert L. Moore wrote a very significant book, Facing the Dragon. The dragon that most threatens us, he believes, is the dragon of our own grandiosity, that sense…
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Written by Jennifer Saunders and directed by Mandie Fletcher, this highly-awaited film version of the hit TV sitcom that ran intermittently from 1992 to 2012 features Saunders and Joanne Lumley as two good-time girls living the high life in London when they run into trouble at a launch party and have…
I picked a good week to dip in to iWitness, RTÉ 1’s nightly reflection programme, described as ‘the spirit of Ireland, one voice and one minute at a time’. Bro. Anthony from Glenstal Abbey started the week with a poetic reflection on God’s work in Nature. Working in the forest he found that God speaks…
The Bethany We Know: Exploring Relationship in the Company of Jesus by Penny Roker RSM (Veritas, £12.99)
I’ll Drop You A Line: A Life With David Marcus by Ita Daly (Londubh Books. €14.99)
Signatories edited by Lucy Collins (UCD Press, € 20.00)
Books over the centuries have taken many forms. Indeed some kinds of books do not have to have any narrative to be most revealing. I came across one of these a little while ago in an Oxfam shop, a green cloth-bound item for which I see I paid 39 cents. The title page revealed that…
“each and every story of a difficulty experienced during pregnancy is heart-wrenching, precisely because the gift of a new child is such a beautiful thing”, writes Michael Kelly
Rachel Beard talks to volunteers who foster rescue dogs waiting for new families
Dear Editor, To judge by Gabriel Kelly’s letter about the effects of Brexit (IC 30/06/2016), one might think the (primarily) English vote to leave the EU must have been done following a calculation that the peace in Northern Ireland that was so hard fought for is worth gambling with. Is it perhaps not more likely,…
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Aubrey Malone
Brendan O’Regan
Peter Costello
Michael Kelly