Spirituality sets out to offer insights to its readers:
on the Bible and the Liturgy, the ‘authentic sources of Christian spirituality,’ (Vatican II); on  the teachings of the great Christian mystics and theologians on the spiritual life and prayer; on the spiritual experience of saintly Christian men and women, now and in the past.
It aims to help lay Christians especially, as they try to deepen their Christian lives while grappling with mortgages, unemployment, forced early retirement, parenthood. It offers encouragement for handing on the faith while faith and the practice of the faith diminish all around us.
It provides a meeting place in which to share views on books and trends, cults, movements and happenings. It appears six times a year.

Spirituality

Volume 16 Sept/Oct 2010

John Henry Newman
Honor McCabe OP

During his State visit to England and Scotland this September, Pope Benedict will preside in Birmingham at the beatification of John Henry Newman. Honor McCabe writes about the great theologian’s life.

Should the Bible carry a Health Warning?
Tom Cahill SVD

The Bible is not just one book, it is a collection of 72 books each one written at a different time and in a different culture. Tom Cahill asks if it should carry a health warning, given the extraordinary teaching within its pages, so much of it at variance with the Gospel.

Learning to Love the Stranger
Martin McGee OSB

As the plight of the people of Pakistan after the monsoon sinks in to our consciousness, Martin McGee, moved by the example of the Algerian martyrs, offers a timely piece on loving and caring for the stranger – a fundamental part of the Gospel.

Give Youth their Daily Bread
Caroline Noctor

What happens to young people after they leave the formality of the Catholic school? Caroline Noctor shares her experience of how she found  spiritual nourishment.

‘Woman, Great in your Faith’
Kevin Seasoltz OSB

As the debate about the place of women in the Church continues, Kevin Seasoltz offers an interesting insight arising from a gospel story.

Thérèse of Lisieux
Kieran Phelan

The influence of a young French woman who died at the early age of 24 continues to grow. Today many find meaning and help in her teaching of spiritual childhood. Kieran Phelan draws attention to a letter Thérèse of Lisieux wrote to her sister, expounding her profound insight.

The Fathers of the Church

Seamus Mulholland OFM

The early centuries of the Christian era produced many men of extraordinary intelligence who teased out the implications of the gospel message. Seamus Mulholland writes about why we need today to read the Fathers of the Church, writers like John Chrysostom, Gregory Nazianzen, Augustine.