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Our 'Gospel truths' are largely sourced and redacted from the Hebrew Bible. This book demonstrates how the Passion Narratives have little to do with 'Gospel truth' and how these stories, with their anti-Jewish polemic, hosted the unintended seedbed for the racial anti-Semitism of the nineteenth century, which in turn led to the Holocaust.

Alban the cat couldn't have known how his life would turn out as he lay abandoned in the snow that winter. But from the moment Sedu, a twelve-year-old foundling rescued him, it's been a whirlwind of magic and adventure! As members of the Tuath Dâe, the two are able to understand each other and venture from their monastery home near the Skelligs to discover the history of their ancestors. Thanks to the guidance of Brother Barnabus and their new mentor Cullan, the pair use a magical key to pass through a hidden doorway into the land of Tuath Dâe. There they are tasked with finding Four Treasures gifted to man centuries ago.

At a time when the values of Catholic Ireland are so often viewed in a negative, even hostile, light, Mary Kenny's approach is a balanced and measured recollection of the Ireland of our times - and of times past, since the foundation of the Irish state a hundred years ago.

Come hear the story of Panpang as she attempts to save the Blue Buffaloes from the clutches of an evil giant and bring them back home to her village.

This book is a gentle and thoughtful children's story addressing death.

Throughout most of the history of Western civilization, Christianity and Classical ideals played a dominant part in education. In most western countries, however, this is no longer the case. In modern pluralist Democracies, church influence struggles with pervasive influences from elsewhere for the hearts and minds of the public. Educational policy remains, however, an instrument to be used by major power groups, and in many countries has become, to a greater or lesser extent, an active or unwitting accomplice in furthering acquisitiveness and the accumulation of material advantage.