Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/08/10
A bomb scare forced thousands of Lourdes pilgrims marking the Feast of the Assumption to evacuate the shrine yesterday. Despite being assumed into heaven, Mary “has not abandoned her mission of...
View ArticleColm Tóibín wants the Church to be beautiful and exotic. But she has to...
Last week I blogged about the curious distinction between spirituality and religion made by Clifford Longley on Thought for the Day. Today a friend has sent me a recent review by Colm Tóibín in the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 19/12/12
A proposed new law on abortion in Ireland will “pave the way for the direct and intentional killing of unborn children“, four Irish archbishops said yesterday (full text). Christians are the largest...
View ArticleIrish emigrée saga needs more wind in its sails
Capturing the essence of a novel via a big screen adaptation is no easy task, so the makers of Brooklyn (12, 111 minutes,) based on Colm Tóibín’s bestseller, deserve plenty of credit for doing just...
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