Bøger af Peter Mulholland

A hospital in crisis. People are dying unexpectedly and one young doctor is caught in the middle of the deaths. Patients he is treating die without any warning and his care comes under suspicion. Meanwhile a new consultant in the elderly psychiatric wards is not all he seems and has a bedside manner not normally seen in the NHS and his behaviour soon has an impact on the nursing staff. Then more deaths occur, this time in patients at home and the focus shifts onto other aspects of patient care. 25% of royalties from this novel will be donated to a leading children's charity

This book provides a detailed analysis of the decline of Catholicism and the almost simultaneous surge of new religious movements in Ireland during the second half of the twentieth century. After chronicling the sudden emergence of these new religious movements, some of which were associated with New Age spirituality, and considering the reactions they elicited in the Irish media and from religious and academic observers, the author explores the cultural, socioeconomic and political context in which they flourished. Taking its title from President Mary McAleese¿s response to the Ryan Report on clerical child abuse, the book traces the «systemic betrayal of the great Christian commandment to love one another» back through Irish history and into the heart of Catholic theology. It argues that the theology that transformed the «cult» of early Christianity into a great civilising power was implicated in the development of an authoritarian regime, and that this regime was undermining the faith and fostering interest in alternative spiritualities for decades before the abuse scandals of the 1990s brought the Church to its knees.