Books

A Catholic primer

OUR JOY IN BEING CATHOLIC: Our Catholic Customs and Beliefs, by Oswald Hirmer. Mariannhill Mission Press, Mariannhill. 2007. 158pp Reviewed...

Tribute to a rich life

AS WE KNEW HIM: Reflections on M Basil Pennington, edited by Michael Moran & Ann Overton. Paraclete Press, Massachusetts. 2008....

With Jesus in the suburbs

MY WALK WITH JESUS, by Gilbert MacDonald. Published by Melrose Books, Cambridgeshire. 2008. 186pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton The Cape...

Missionary journey

EMPANDENI INTERLUDE 1899-1903, Journal of a Woman Missionary. Transcribed and edited by Sr Brigid Rose Tiernan. Cluster Publications, Pietermaritzburg. 2008....

Divinity in poetry

THROUGH THE UNKNOWN REMEMBERED GATE by Margaret Blackie. New Voices Publishing, Cape Town. 2008. 145pp. AGE IS A BEAUTIFUL PHASE...

John Henry Newman

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: A Mind Alive, by Roderick Strange. Dartman, Longman and Todd, London. 2008. 158pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton