Showing posts with label Colm Tóibín. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colm Tóibín. Show all posts
Friday, May 27, 2016

Nicola Denzey's The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women — Book Notes

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My last posting was, in some respects, a piece of historiographical commentary. It was a meditation of sorts on how historians might...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Unearthing Hidden LGBTQ Stories in Family History Research: The Mirror That Reflects Nothing Back

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A warning before you dive in: this is one of those postings about one of my particular interests, tracking family history. And so it ...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Sunday Commentary on State of Catholic Church As Papal Election Nears

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Habemus papam!   Well, at least, according to "Saturday Night Live ," it appears we do.
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Benedict Takes Georg Gänswein with Him to Retirement: People Will Talk

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I wrote recently that people will  talk about the arrangement made by Benedict to retire inside the Vatican with his personal secr...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Historian William Johnston on John Paul's Leadership Style: "Blind Spot" and "Acts of Personal Cruelty"

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At several Catholic blog sites, Carolyn Disco has very helpfully linked in the past several days to a 6 April 2005 Australian Nationa...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Colm Tóibín on Medjugorje (with Questions about the Politics of Marian Shrines)

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I mentioned a few days back that I've been reading Colm Tóibín's book The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (Lon...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Colm Tóibín on John Paul II's Visit to Dublin: "Mysticism and Mystery Followed by Authority and Power"

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John Paul II and Marcial Maciel   When I first read Irish writer Colm Tóibín's eulogy of Pope John Paul II in the New York Times...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Colm Tóibín on Gay Culture in the Catholic Hierarchy: Now You See, Now You Don't

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Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s review of Angelo Quattrocchi’s The Pope Is Not Gay in this week’s London Review of Books is one of the mo...
Thursday, June 4, 2009

Colm Tóibín's "Brooklyn": The Heroic Moral Depths of "Everyday" Life

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And as I offer some reflections on one book today, it occurs to me to recommend another. I recently finished reading Colm Tóibín’s latest...