Columba Books

In May 1984, John Waters drove to Dublin to begin a career in journalism during which he was to specialise in raising unpopular issues of public importance. Three decades later, with the dust settling on his departure from Irish journalism, he finds himself back in the parish in Sligo where his father grew up a century before, looking back at the hopes and expectations of his youth and thanking his lucky stars to have escaped from the ideological cesspit the Dublin media had become.

Just Catholic: The Future is Now is a collection of essays written over a period of eight years by Phyllis Zagano, world expert on women in the diaconate. Zagano addresses an astounding range of topics that many in the Church fear to raise. She pulls no punches, yet charitably and intelligently argues for a more ‘just’ Church.