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.


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