Nelson Mandela encapsulated ‘forgiveness’, writes Andrew O’Connell

The Church is presented an opportunity with full pews at Christmas, writes Andrew O’Connell

Andrew O’Connell assesses the event, which closed last Sunday

"What were you expecting, lady?” asked the gun-toting Israeli soldier of the late Maeve Binchy. “A Renaissance table set for 13?” Maeve was visiting the bare church at the site of the Last Supper in Jerusalem and was stunned to find that it didn’t resemble what she had imagined. Her belief in the “special Irish…

Prayer makes us more than observers, writes Andrew O’Connell