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A New Vision for the Catholic Church – Book Review
The oft-quoted verse from the book of Proverbs, ‘where there is no vision, the people perish,’ (chapter 29, verse 18) opens a new book by Gerry O’Hanlon, A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland (Columba Press, 2011). That verse could be considered an apt summary of the current state of the [...] read our review »
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O’Toole’s New Republic – unfinished business or just a dream?
More as a trailer than a review – as it’s out on Thursday– I draw attention to Fintan O’Toole’s latest polemic “Enough is Enough – how to build a new Republic“. Fintan has been promoting the book vigorously on this side of the water, on Radio 4’s Start the Week and here at greater length [...] read our review »
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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review »
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That’s very cryptic, Mack!
Fixed now Horseman, not sure how it happened but the content went AWOL.
Enough of these already
You know, I’d never seen one before until today, but apparently there is a lot of them out there..
still blank for me…
mack ,
‘but apparently there is a lot of them out there..’
The currency in this instance has been much debased . The odd thing is that Hitler for all his faults was in himself a perfect gentleman at least in terms of his personal ethics . Stands up quite well to comparisons with the ethics of say a Madoff ( Ponzi Supremo ) , Greenberg (AIG thief)and another hundred or more from the corporate and political worlds of Washington DC , Wall St and the City of London not forgetting our own Irish ‘brown paper bag ‘ deals- which should get another airing today as former Government Press Secretary, Frank Dunlop faces sentencing on a number of corruption charges . We need not mention the religious orders defence of their ethical standards or their preference for purchasing insurance policies against being sued for molestation of children rather than remove the criminals form the order ? Christianity wasis being turned inside out and upside down so that these ‘criminals ‘ could be kept
People are learning the hard way not to trust bankers , insurers , politicians , clergy , the mass media ,corporation executives etc etc etc .
As my old man used to say -never mind what they say watch what they actually do !
Now that we’ve seen what they have done and heard some of their ‘justifications ‘ for unethical behaviour will we ever again trust the ‘professionals ‘be they lay or clerical to regulate themselves ?
Aye, that Downfall clip set to any current disaster is doing the rounds, but it is gas with the psychotic Hitler ranting.