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Appearing six times a year, each 72-page issue will offer opportunities for dialogue between the experience and inheritance of Christian faith and the concerns of today’s world, political, economic, artistic and religious. It will help the reader to become familiar with theological and spiritual insights, offering encouragement to live the Christian faith with greater vigour and joy amidst the practical realities of daily life.
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Conversations
November-December 2025
This issue has a special focus on synodality in the life of the Church.
Cardinal Mario Grech traces the journey From Vatican Council II to a Synodal Church, while Julieann Moran reflects on what is now taking place as Receiving the Council’s Unfolding Gift. We are glad to carry, in full, the papers they gave at an evening to celebrate the centenary of the birth (1925-2025) of Austin Flannery. Both rejoiced in how the synodal movement gives practical effect to the Council’s teaching on the whole gathering of the baptised being indefectible in the faith. Thus, the synodal process is a listening to the Holy Spirit by listening to the sensus fidei given to all who are baptised through their anointing by the Spirit.
The place of councils in the life of the Church arises keenly this year, the 1700th anniversary of the first ever ecumenical council that held at Nicea, in present-day Turkey in 325. Sara Parvis shows, in Nicea at 1700, how this anniversary is an occasion of joy and hope and prompts rich theological debate.
To help focus on Advent and Christmas, Bonnie Thurston meditates, in From Small Beginnings, on the prophet Micah. Also on a biblical topic, Mary T. Brien unpacks Paul’s teaching on hope, in The Other Side of Suffering.
In Coffee Morning Christ, Phil Mortell advocates recovering the community life element of gathering for the Eucharist.
In Do We still Need Universities?, we see how President Trump’s attack on American universities prompts David Begg to re-visit John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University.
This being an era of increased war-mongering sent Geraldine Mitchell to re-visit, in War-time Resistance, the writings of the French pastor and pacifist Jean Lasserre, and the stance adopted by the French writer and publisher Jean Bruller in his novel the Silence of the Sea, published under a pseudonym in 1942. Both men, she points out, ‘had experienced the Great War and a second war, coming so soon after, must have felt like a great folly. Both men chose the power of the word to promote opposition and resistance to war.’
In God and the Reality of Suffering, Martin Henry wrestles with one of the most agonizing challenges facing both believer and non-believer.
The final article, a reflection on the 2011 painting ‘Nativity’ by Judith Tutin, sees her work as innovatively linked with a twelfth-century tradition.
Conversations
November-December 2025
This issue has a special focus on synodality in the life of the Church.
Cardinal Mario Grech traces the journey From Vatican Council II to a Synodal Church, while Julieann Moran reflects on what is now taking place as Receiving the Council’s Unfolding Gift. We are glad to carry, in full, the papers they gave at an evening to celebrate the centenary of the birth (1925-2025) of Austin Flannery. Both rejoiced in how the synodal movement gives practical effect to the Council’s teaching on the whole gathering of the baptised being indefectible in the faith. Thus, the synodal process is a listening to the Holy Spirit by listening to the sensus fidei given to all who are baptised through their anointing by the Spirit.
The place of councils in the life of the Church arises keenly this year, the 1700th anniversary of the first ever ecumenical council that held at Nicea, in present-day Turkey in 325. Sara Parvis shows, in Nicea at 1700, how this anniversary is an occasion of joy and hope and prompts rich theological debate.
To help focus on Advent and Christmas, Bonnie Thurston meditates, in From Small Beginnings, on the prophet Micah. Also on a biblical topic, Mary T. Brien unpacks Paul’s teaching on hope, in The Other Side of Suffering.
In Coffee Morning Christ, Phil Mortell advocates recovering the community life element of gathering for the Eucharist.
In Do We still Need Universities?, we see how President Trump’s attack on American universities prompts David Begg to re-visit John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University.
This being an era of increased war-mongering sent Geraldine Mitchell to re-visit, in War-time Resistance, the writings of the French pastor and pacifist Jean Lasserre, and the stance adopted by the French writer and publisher Jean Bruller in his novel the Silence of the Sea, published under a pseudonym in 1942. Both men, she points out, ‘had experienced the Great War and a second war, coming so soon after, must have felt like a great folly. Both men chose the power of the word to promote opposition and resistance to war.’
In God and the Reality of Suffering, Martin Henry wrestles with one of the most agonizing challenges facing both believer and non-believer.
The final article, a reflection on the 2011 painting ‘Nativity’ by Judith Tutin, sees her work as innovatively linked with a twelfth-century tradition.
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