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The Christian parent’s toolkit

In a world where religion is given a bad press, Sarah Johnson provides a practical ‘toolkit’ for parents who want to give their children a happy and healthy childhood where God is honoured. She shows how faith brings perspective to life and provides a sane and viable alternative to atheistic [...]

1999.11.30.

Days of the Lord: from Advent 2009 to before Advent 2010

Again this year the Cloyne Commission for Liturgical Formation, in conjunction with Fr. Patrick Jones of the National Centre for Liturgy, editor of the Liturgical Calendar for Ireland 2009, has produced a beautifully coloured and comprehensive liturgical wall calendar.

It displays at a glance all the liturgical feasts and saints days for the [...]

1999.11.30.

Healing the past: Catholic Anti-Semitism: roots and redemption

This book by Ena Gray gives a factual account of the origins and development of anti-Semitism. Its purpose is to facilitate the confession and repentance of sins against the Jewish people and in this it is highly successful.

1999.11.30.

An cúigiú soiscéal

Cothraí Gógan

1999.11.30.

The Carmelite charism: exploring the biblical roots

James McCaffrey OCD has written this account of Carmelite spirituality for all those who want to deepen their relationship with God through a scripture-based understanding of prayer.

1999.11.30.

Critical issues in religious education

A wider view of religious education shows it can make a major contribution to establishing right relations among peoples within nations and between the nations of the world. Three contributors, Oliver Brennan, Finola Cunnane and  Kieran Scott explore the context and the vision of this wider view of religious education.

1999.11.30.

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland

This book is Finlay Holmes’ popular study of the Presbyterians of Ireland – who they are, where they have come from, their theological and political conflicts, their identity and ethos, and their significant role in Irish religious and political history.

1999.11.30.

Photographic Collection of Father Frank Browne SJ

Probably the best known Irish Jesuit and photographer, Frank Browne’s prodigious work of over 41,000 photographs span from the dying years of the 19th century to the 1950’s.

1999.11.30.

The ever open door

Ambrose Tinsely, OSB edits this review of memories of Sr Eucharia Keane RSM

1999.11.30.

Let the reader understand

Sean Goan’s book offers short helpful explanations of the readings used on Sundays during Year C of the liturgical cycle. For many lay people who have little or no training in theology, including readers, the readings can be difficult to understand, so this book gives an introductory article about the [...]

1999.11.30.

Promises to keep; parents and confirmation

This book aims to get both the parents at home and the parish community involved with the candidates for confirmation as they prepare for the day they receive the sacrament and insure it will be a fruitful experience for all. John-Paul Sheridan is diocesan advisor for primary religious education in [...]

1999.11.30.

Undergoing God: dispatches from the scene of a break-in

James Alison is a Catholic theologian, priest and author. Here he poses questions to his Catholic faith on the important questions of desire, worship, sexuality and truthfulness.

1999.11.30.

Jesus of Nazareth

This book by Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, is the first in a series. It is an attempt to give an inspiring account of Jesus. It looks at his baptism, his temptations, his proclamation of the kingdom of God, the sermon on the mount up to when he declares [...]

1999.11.30.

Mission in the 21st century: exploring the five marks of global mission

This collection of essays from people engaged in mission in a variety of contexts around the world shows that there isn’t just one, but many and various, narratives of mission. It is especially in the context of cultural pluralism that the editors invited the contributors to write. What emerges is [...]

1999.11.30.

The Ministry of the Word: A Compilation of Sources

The recent Synod of Bishops in Rome on the Word of God (October 2008) highlighted ways of more effective proclaiming the Word of God in today’s world and having it inspire the lives of Christians. In anticipation of this, the Cloyne Commission for Liturgical Formation last year produced two beautiful [...]

1999.11.30.

Irish housing: time for new vision

Dr Michael Punch of the School of Sociology UCD analyses how as a society we got to where we are and how we might do something better.

1999.11.30.

Technology and transcendence

This book represents the work of fifteen scholars in four disciplines: philosophy, theology, sociology and cultural studies. It offers an interdisciplinary reflection on the role and impact of technology in society. It is edited by edited by Michael Breen, Eamonn Conway and Barry McMillan.

1999.11.30.

Welcoming the stranger

In this booklet, John Dardis SJ brings together a set of essays on the complex realities of migration in the world today, urging Irish people to welcome those who come to this land in their hour of need.

1999.11.30.

Patenting life? Stop!

Sean McDonagh examines whether corporate greed is forcing us to eat genetically modified food, and fears that new patenting rules may allow corporations to gain ownership over living organisms.

1999.11.30.

The miracle, the message, the story: Jean Vanier and l’Arche

Kathryn Spink describes the beginning, growth, vision and story of l’Arche, a special form of community where, for the past 40 years, people who are often rejected and despised by this world can help develop their potential of all to the full.

1999.11.30.

Oliver Plunkett in his own words

Desmond Forristal gives a lively account of the life of Oliver Plunkett from young priest in Rome through his travels to Ireland. We follow him through his ministry as archbishop, the disguises he adopted, his experience as a fugitive, his imprisonment in Dublin, his trial in London and final execution [...]

1999.11.30.

Scandalous saints and spirited sinners

Bernard Cotter OP gives us very brief accounts of some of our favourite saints. Saints give us hope. They’ve known raw fear and terrible worry. Some have done bad things and been hard to live with. This book will amuse and encourage you.

1999.11.30.

Blessed among women: The Book of Mary

Peter de Rosa’s dips into our favourite Marian prayers, poems and hymns, both ancient and modern. There are chapters on Mary’s many titles, the Rosary, and on Ireland’s faithfulness to it. We also get a glimpse of how great Protestants like Martin Luther, and Muslims like the Prophet Mohammed thought [...]

1999.11.30.

The Gospel of Mark: a commentary

Michael Mullins’s commentary on Mark’s gospel is offered as a textbook for students of theology, as a guide for serious readers, as support for preachers, to the many people who practise lectio divina and spiritual reading. No prior technical knowledge of biblical scholarship is assumed.

1999.11.30.

The Mystery of Faith

In 2005, the year of the Eucharist, twenty significant writers have come together to produce this tour de force of eucharistic themes in which biblical, doctrinal, historical, liturgical, devotional, ecumenical, catechetical, linguistic, artistic and some post-modern perspectives all have their place. This is a very comprehensive compilation.

1999.11.30.

Putting hand to the plough: a memoir

Seventy-five year old retired Maynooth vice-president and parish priest Denis O’Callaghan sees his life in three phases: the twenty five years of his childhood and preparation for the priesthood, twenty five years teaching moral theology in Maynooth and twenty five years as parish priest in Mallow. This fascinating memoir charts [...]

1999.11.30.

Ordinary work, extraordinary grace: my spiritual journey with Opus Dei

This is a book about Opus Dei by an insider that is accessible to outsiders. Scott Hahn was a Presbyterian biblical theologian who met some members of Opus Dei and was attracted by their life and example to investigate further, eventually joining the group himself. This is his personal story. [...]

1999.11.30.

Saint Moling Luachra: A pilgrimage from Sliabh Luachra to Rinn Ros Broic above the stream-pools of the Barrow

This is an edition and translation of the 10th century Middle Irish text “The Birth and Life of St Moling” (“Geinemain Moiling ocus a Bhetae”) with analysis and commentary by Presentation Sister and Irish scholar Máire B. de Paor. In approaching this work she warns against looking for objective historical [...]

1999.11.30.

Why go to church? The drama of the Eucharist

Many find going to church to be boring and pointless. It is to these that Timothy Radcliffe OP speaks. He suggests that the Eucharist works at a deep level, transforming our humanity so that we share God’s life. He shows that the Mass can transform us right where we’re at. [...]

1999.11.30.

A wild constraint: the case for chastity

Jenny Taylor rediscovers chastity as a counter-culture that heralds a new sexual freedom and a recovery of community. She has as her model pioneers, like Florence Nightingale and Jane Austen, and the missionary spinsters who spent decades in India, Nepal and Africa providing healthcare and educational opportunities, especially for other [...]

1999.11.30.
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