In Defense of Civilization: How the Past Can Renew Our Present Michael…
About the Author: David Gibney
David Gibney is a school teacher in Dublin. He holds a Ph.D. in English literature.
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Cabrini
Cabrini, the new film from Angel Studios about St Frances Xavier Cabrini…
About the Author: Matthew Becklo
Matthew Becklo is a husband and father, cultural commentator, and the Publishing Director for Bishop Robert Barron’s Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. His writing can be found at Word on Fire, Strange Notions, and Aleteia. Follow him @MatthewBecklo on Twitter.
Blessed are the Peacemakers
John Hume: The Persuader Stephen Walker Gill Books Oct. 2023 432 pages…
About the Author: Pat Hanratty
Pat Hanratty taught Science/Chemistry in Tallaght Community School from its inception in 1972 until he retired in 2010. He was the school’s first Transition Year Co-ordinator and for four years he had the role of Home School Community Liaison Officer.
The Cardinal who fearlessly opposed the “armed struggle”
A New Ireland: Memories and Reflections of Cardinal Cahal B. Daly Gemma…
About the Author: Tim O'Sullivan
Tim O’Sullivan taught healthcare policy at third level in Ireland and has degrees in History and French and a PhD in social policy from University College Dublin.
New Atheism grows old
The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism grew Old…
About the Author: Patrick Gorevan
Rev. Patrick Gorevan is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature. He lectures in philosophy in St Patrick’s College Maynooth and is academic tutor at Maryvale Institute. He has written on the early phenomenological movement, virtue ethics and the role of emotion in moral action.
Poor Things
The highly idiosyncratic Yorgos Lanthimos revisits the myth of Frankenstein through the…
About the Author: Juan Luis Sánchez
This film review originally appeared in Spanish on www.decine21.com and is reprinted with permission.
Will Leviathan save us?
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism John Gray Allen Lane Sept, 2023…
About the Author: Margaret Hickey
Margaret Hickey is a regular contributor to Position Papers. She is a mother of three and lives with her husband in Blarney.
The tragedy that was the Reformation
A People’s Tragedy. Studies in Reformation Eamon Duffy Bloomsbury Continuum Nov, 2020…
About the Author: Tim O’Sullivan
Tim O’Sullivan taught healthcare policy at third level in Ireland and has degrees in History and French and a PhD in social policy from University College Dublin.
A world seen through the eyes of a “warped bird”
Orwell, The New Life D.J. Taylor Oxford University Press May 2023 540…
About the Author: Margaret Hickey
Margaret Hickey is a regular contributor to Position Papers. She is a mother of three and lives with her husband in Blarney.