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An encyclopedia of Irish women from all walks of life who made a place for themselves in the annals of history as saints, scholars, healers and more! Staying true to the original stories as much as mythic and folkloric influences would allow, Lorraine aims the tales at young readers interested in learning about Old Ireland and its female heroes.

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While restraint for health and dietary programs is on the rise, fasting for religious motives has declined greatly in Western society. Equally, compared to the lavish festal celebrations of the past, the luxurious excess of consumption has also waned in its extravagance.

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One of the most urgent questions facing the Catholic Church is how best to celebrate its sacraments. But the problem facing priests and liturgy planners is how, realistically, to bring new life to celebrations for the modern era. This volume faces the problem in relation to vocation and healing.

One of the urgent questions facing the Catholic Church is how best to celebrate its sacraments. The authors face this problem directly, re-examining the potential of the ritual acts themselves, and offering ideas for enabling the symbols of initiation to speak to the people of God.

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In the year 2010, Edgar Turner became part of that small group of people who are not only mentally and physically active at the age of 90, but remain an essential cog in an institutional machine. In Edgar's case it is the Church of Ireland, a body whose heart beats close to its Irish and Anglican roots. For more than 60 years, as a priest, scholar, ecumenist, legislator, and sometime woodworker and football devotee, his rich and varied life ha...

This new biography, marking the first five years of Benedict's tenure, shows how the unfolding pontificate has been one of several surprises. As leader of the world's 1.24 billion Catholics, Benedict's papacy continues to play an important role in the religious sphere as well as on the world political stage. The reader is given a comprehensive pen portrait of the Bavarian pope.

This book argues that the problems in the Catholic Church stem from its failure to implement some of the key ideas of the Second Vatican Council over forty years ago. These include the redefinition of the church as The People of God and the vision of church authority as being exercised in collegiality between the pope and the bishops of the world. The only way things can be changed is the calling of another council of the bishops of the world ...

The reflections and aphorisms in this book are meant to be read in your own way and on your own time. Allow them to speak to your heart, to create a silence within you, to reveal their message to you, to draw you ever more deeply into the journey of life. It is simply intended that this little book will bring you into a deeper part of your being.

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This book explains to the reader why Catholics do what they do, and what Catholics understand by the Eucharist.' Complex but central ideas such as sacrifice, sacrament, and transubstantiation are addressed and rendered accessible. The often controversia

At a time when the Church throughout the world - and especially in Ireland - finds itself under question and criticism from a wide range of sources, this work urges the Church to reflect on the original message of Jesus and live out the radical disciples

Knock is Ireland's national Marian Shrine and is visited by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims every year. This book is about all of the things going on at Knock Shrine, from counseling to prayer guidance, youth ministry to the Chapel of Reconciliation, t