Father Oliver Crilly has just written a book called “A Shortcut to the Gospels”. The book underlines the diversity of the four Gospels even though, superficially, they are all telling the same life of Christ. Saint Mathew’s Gospel was written at a time of great change in the early Church – the evolution from its Jewish origins to include Gentiles. Because of that, Father Crilly told Liam Cahill it is a very appropriate Gospel for our times. Oliver Crilly’s book “A Shortcut to the Gospels” is published by Veritas.

The moment of the death of Jesus is recorded in very few words in the Gospels. Oliver Crilly, a Derry priest, recalls words from the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes that foreshadowed Mathew’s words: “He let the spirit go”.

Seán Cardinal Brady spoke to Eileen Good about where he finds joy in Eastertime.

Dominican priest, Joe Kavanagh from the Priory Institute in Tallaght speaks to Eileen Good about the Easter Triduum.

Patrick is Ireland’s most important saint and every year he is celebrated in more and more countries. This year’s parades in cities, towns and villages throughout Ireland underlined how important he still is in the lives of people. Andrew McCarthy talked with Father Jim McCormack, lecturer in Ecclesiastical History in All Hallows College, in Dublin. He began by exploring the question of what exactly we know about Saint Patrick.