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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
September-October 2025
The Tragedy of Gaza
Bernard Treacy points to strands within Jewish thinking which identify the political Zionism which underpins the policies of the State of Israel, as a deviation from the inaugural theological vision. This form of Zionism expected Jews to live at peace among and alongside the Palestinian population of the Holy Lands.
Ordinary People
Cathleen Kaveny shows how labelling someone as ‘extraordinary’ sets them apart and can be a misleading badge of isolation. It distracts from the teaching that all are equally made in the image of God.
Thoughts from Thessaloniki
T. P. O’Mahony, while visiting Thessaloniki, finds his thought veering from the preaching of St Paul in that city to present atrocities in Gaza, and to the process by which the State of Israel gained recognition.
Pilgrims of Hope: Following the Synodal Pathway
Mary T. Brien looks at the final synodal document, called Synodal Church, Communion, Participation and Mission, as deserving attention, study, prayer, reflection and appropriation.
Season of Syodality
Kevin O’Gorman suggests that synodality is more a lived cycle than a logically structured system. From this perspective, it enables us to deal with a number of basic ecclesiological tensions touched on by Vatican II that are still in many ways unresolved.
Four Gospels as Sculpture
Cyprian Love, in looking at the four gospels, applies the four phases of looking that happen when viewing a painting. He finds that the two ideas snap together in our intelligence as if by magnetism.
Praying the Responsorial Psalm
Patrick Jones surveys the various ways in which, over history, the Psalms featured in the liturgy of the Eucharist. He shows how the restored responsorial psalm relates, prayerfully, to the other parts of the Liturgy of the Word.
Ambivalent Images
Michael H. Marchal shares reactions to artistic treasures he encountered on a visit in 2024 to the Rhineland.
Stabat Mater: Endurance and Embrace
Angela Graham finds in the hymn composed for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September) a resource for learning to endure, but without defiance
Witnessing to the Gospel in a Muslim Country
Martin McGee tells of the life and ministry in Algeria of Henri Vergès (1930-1994), This Marist brother, martyred on May 8, 1994, was beatified on December 8, 2018. When his licence to work as a teacher was revoked by the government the final six years of his life were spent running a library and a social centre for over 1,000 sixth formers in the poorest part of the city of Algiers.
Islam and Society
David Begg examines what Islam is and how it takes may forms, both over history, and in differenct countries.
The Peace Movement and Interational Law
Ian Linden points to the need to value and respect the efforts of the dedicated, mostly hidden, peace diplomacy of the Vatican and the peace organisations such as Pax Christi and the Movement for the Abolition of War.
Meeting Godot
Kevin O’Donnell offers an imaginative theological twist on the characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
The Chieftains
Gerard Garrigan’s poem is a response to hearing the music group play.
St Jerome
An account of the translation work of the saint (feast day 30 September).
Conversations
September-October 2025
The Tragedy of Gaza
Bernard Treacy points to strands within Jewish thinking which identify the political Zionism which underpins the policies of the State of Israel, as a deviation from the inaugural theological vision. This form of Zionism expected Jews to live at peace among and alongside the Palestinian population of the Holy Lands.
Ordinary People
Cathleen Kaveny shows how labelling someone as ‘extraordinary’ sets them apart and can be a misleading badge of isolation. It distracts from the teaching that all are equally made in the image of God.
Thoughts from Thessaloniki
T. P. O’Mahony, while visiting Thessaloniki, finds his thought veering from the preaching of St Paul in that city to present atrocities in Gaza, and to the process by which the State of Israel gained recognition.
Pilgrims of Hope: Following the Synodal Pathway
Mary T. Brien looks at the final synodal document, called Synodal Church, Communion, Participation and Mission, as deserving attention, study, prayer, reflection and appropriation.
Season of Syodality
Kevin O’Gorman suggests that synodality is more a lived cycle than a logically structured system. From this perspective, it enables us to deal with a number of basic ecclesiological tensions touched on by Vatican II that are still in many ways unresolved.
Four Gospels as Sculpture
Cyprian Love, in looking at the four gospels, applies the four phases of looking that happen when viewing a painting. He finds that the two ideas snap together in our intelligence as if by magnetism.
Praying the Responsorial Psalm
Patrick Jones surveys the various ways in which, over history, the Psalms featured in the liturgy of the Eucharist. He shows how the restored responsorial psalm relates, prayerfully, to the other parts of the Liturgy of the Word.
Ambivalent Images
Michael H. Marchal shares reactions to artistic treasures he encountered on a visit in 2024 to the Rhineland.
Stabat Mater: Endurance and Embrace
Angela Graham finds in the hymn composed for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September) a resource for learning to endure, but without defiance
Witnessing to the Gospel in a Muslim Country
Martin McGee tells of the life and ministry in Algeria of Henri Vergès (1930-1994), This Marist brother, martyred on May 8, 1994, was beatified on December 8, 2018. When his licence to work as a teacher was revoked by the government the final six years of his life were spent running a library and a social centre for over 1,000 sixth formers in the poorest part of the city of Algiers.
Islam and Society
David Begg examines what Islam is and how it takes may forms, both over history, and in differenct countries.
The Peace Movement and Interational Law
Ian Linden points to the need to value and respect the efforts of the dedicated, mostly hidden, peace diplomacy of the Vatican and the peace organisations such as Pax Christi and the Movement for the Abolition of War.
Meeting Godot
Kevin O’Donnell offers an imaginative theological twist on the characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
The Chieftains
Gerard Garrigan’s poem is a response to hearing the music group play.
St Jerome
An account of the translation work of the saint (feast day 30 September).
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