Disturbing the Peace: The Way of Disciples

Religion & Spirituality

Eamonn Bredin

Christian Books & Bibles

Columba Books

A collection of reflections written by theologians, liturgists, scriptures scholars, historians, journalists, and broadcasters for funerals.

Funeral Homilies

Politics & Social Sciences

Liam Swords

Sociology

Reflections on the Sunday gospels of Year A, Matthew's Year, of the Roman Lectionary. For each Sunday, he gives the text of the gospel reading, a short introductory note that puts the reading in its liturgical or scriptural context, and he summarizes the Good News of the reading in a sentence or two. He then gives two reflections on each reading, the first normally being a commentary on the text and the second being more reflective and imaginative, relating the reading to the world of today. This series has been used not only by homilists but also by groups who come together for prayer or discussion. Fr O'Flynn's lively readable style makes the best insights of modern scholarship accessible. He is an experienced retreat preacher and spiritual director. ""Superb...There is so much

The Good News of Matthew's Year

Silvester O'Flynn

This is the third volume of the series An Irish Reader in Moral Theology: the Legacy of the Last Fifty Years. The first volume dealt with foundation issues in morality, the second with sex, marriage and the family. The editors have now brought together what they consider to be the most significant articles from journals and books by Irish theologians in the area of medical and bio-ethics. Here is a rich source for those who seek to bring themselves up to date on what is happening.

Irish Reader in Moral Theology: The Legacy of the Last Fifty Years Vol 3: Medical and Bio-ethics

The Irish Centre for Religious Education hosted two international conferences that were a major contribution to the dialogue about what constitutes good education and good religious education in the pluralist context that is Ireland today. The proceedings of these two very successful conferences are made available in this publication.

Toward Mutual Ground: Pluralism, Religious Education and Diversity in Irish Schools

Religious Studies

This is a collection by Fr Mark Hartley OCSO, a Cistercian monk of Mount St Bernard Abbey, Leicester, Ireland. Fr Mark's preaching is fluent and spontaneous, and his gentle, unflamboyant style will appeal to many. That, and his ability, despite his apparent isolation in a monastery, to connect his spiritual insights with what was going on in the world, makes this book ageless. Fr Mark kept abreast of current affairs and events, and had a genuine understanding of the lot of ordinary people. He may not have been in the world but he was certainly of it, and this comes across in each of the sermons in this book.

I Have to Come Up With a Sermon...: Year A

Hartley, Mark

Treasured and Transformed: Vision for the Heart, Understanding for the Mind

O'Leary, Daniel J.

This book is the work of an international group of religious and scholars, under the leadership of Redemptorist Archbishop Joseph Tobin, formerly Secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life. With a wealth of pastoral experience and theological insight from orders both old and new, this book studies the legacy left behind by a Council that stood at the bridge between the modern and the postmodern age. "The collected papers make clear that the necessity of faith in the future has profound ministerial and theological implications. They are exegetically grounded, theologically nuanced, historically informed, and pastorally appropriate."--Romero D'Souza, The Salesian Community, December 2014

A Future Built on Faith: Religious Life and the Legacy of Vatican II

The Le Cheile story stretches from the thirteenth to the twenty first century and from the United States of America through Italy, France and England to Ireland. It is a story which includes the fascinating lives of a young thirteenth century nobleman challenging heresy, a nineteenth century American mother providing schools for England's young girls, a young bishop learning how to provide Catholic education in an impoverished penal Ireland, and an Anglican nurse in the Crimea converted by the faith of dying Irish soldiers. Each of the fourteen stories is compelling; each one a personal story of a courageous response in faith to the immediate needs of context and time.

A Tale of Nine Centuries: The Story and Spirituality of the Le Cheile School Trust

Collins, Una

Pope John XXIII was one of the most popular pontiffs of all time. John endeared himself to Catholics and non-Catholics alike with his wisdom and sense of humor. In contrast to some of his predecessors, John was friendly and did not stand on ceremony. In Good Pope John, Michael Collins traces the life and times of this remarkable man. The reader travels with Angelo Roncalli from his birthplace in Sotto il Monte to the Vatican, gaining an insight into the mind and soul of Good Pope John.

Good Pope John: A Short Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

COLLINS, Michael

Leaders & Notable People

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