Hell is never a nasty surprise waiting for a basically happy person. Hell can only be the full-flowering of a pride and selfishness that have, through a long time, twisted a heart so thoroughly that it considers happiness as unhappiness and has an arrogant disdain for happy people. If you are essentially warm of heart…
Finding Dory (G)
I was having a relaxing Tuesday morning last week when news of the killing of a priest near Rouen came through as breaking news early on The Pat Kenny Show (Newstalk), with an up to date report soon after from journalist Lara Marlowe. It had been a terrible few weeks for atrocities and this one…
Where is God in Suffering? by Brendan Purcell (Veritas, €12.99) God You’re Breaking My Heart: What is God’s Response to Suffering & Evil by Brian Grogan SJ (Messenger Publications, €9.99)
The Heavens and the Earth: Colour your way through the Bible’s most beautiful Verses Created by Stu McLellan (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
Voices from the Easter Rising, Ruán O’Donnell and Mícheál Ó hAodha (Merrion Press 2016)
Louis MacNeice: In A Between World by Christopher J. Fauske (Irish Academic Press, €29.99pb / €70.00hb)
The pain and glory of the cathedrals
Dear Editor, How apt to see the photo of An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, under the heading of ‘Disconnected Catholics may experience God’s reality at Knock’ (IC 21/07/2016). After all, while claiming to be a practicing Catholic he had the abortion bill passed in the Dail. Now by what stretch of the imagination can anyone claim…
Dear Editor, As awful the act that claimed the life of the martyr Fr Jacques Hamel in France must be the recognition that Christian persecution has finally been visited (returned) to Europe in the most savage of fashions. That which our Christian brothers and sisters have endured in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria among other nations…
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Aubrey Malone
Brendan O’Regan
Peter Costello
Paul Keenan