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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
March-April 2025
A Shipwreck of Civilization?
Bernard Treacy links the call at the Washington inter-faith service after the inauguration of President Trump, for public life to honour the inherent dignity of every human being, for honesty, and for humility, with teachings of Pope Francis on migration.
Reflections
Poems from John Deeney (‘Easter Vigil: The Pantheon, Rome’) and Clare Bryden (‘Continue in My Word’).
Always Be Ready
Michael Downey shows how hope is the very heart and centre of human living, always moving through and beyond the present moment.
Why I Became a Theologian
John Scally pays tribute to the late Raphael Gallagher, C.Ss.R.
A Council 800 Years ago, and a Synod today
Thomas F. O’Meara sees links between the reform policies of Pope Gregory X, who summoned the Council of Lyon (1274), and of Pope Francis, even to the point that, while one received Mongols at an Ecumenical Council, the other visited Mongolia.
The Journey to Baptism
Patrick Jones leads the reader on an informed journey along the steps of the journey which is The Christian Initiation of Adults.
St Patrick – Mirror of God’s Love
Iva Beranek quarries the Confessio of St Patrick to appreciate his deep love for God, and his call to the Irish people to take that love to heart for themselves today.
Living without a Why
Mary T. Malone introduces the thinking and witness of the Beguine Marguerite Porete (died 1301), author of The Mirror of Simple Souls.
Discovering the Gift of Silence
Martin McGee shows how times of silence are crucial to our mental and spiritual well-being.
Has Ireland’s Development Model Run out of Road?
David Begg demonstrates how industrial policy in Ireland has had to change direction many times since the foundation of the state. Wars and geopolitical tension, a retreat from globalisation and an isolationist administration in the US, could all negatively affect foreign direct investment and multinationals already located here.
Simone Weil: An Apostle for Truth for a Post-truth World?
Richard Clarke introduces the life and radical thinking of ‘the patron saint of outsiders’ who demonstrated that the pursuit of truth can never be without cost, personal and social.
John McGahern’s Priesthood
Mark Patrick Hederman engages with John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun (both the book and the film) in view of the fact that the writer seemed to spend much of his life making up to his mother for turning down the vocation to the priesthood she had always had in mind for him.
Pluralism and Intolerance
Brian Merry explores the question of whether pluralism has an unconscious bias, an inbuilt intolerance of vulnerability and imperfection.
Impediments or Openings to New Life?
Céline Mangan reviews The Stones of the Last Week: Impediments to Holy Week, by Bonnie Thurston
Embodying the Christian Community
Vivian Boland reviews Tilling the Church: Theology for an Unfinished Project, by Richard Lennan.
Negotiating University Challenges
Brendan McConvery reviews Living with My Century: a Memoir, by Eda Sagarra
Conversations
March-April 2025
A Shipwreck of Civilization?
Bernard Treacy links the call at the Washington inter-faith service after the inauguration of President Trump, for public life to honour the inherent dignity of every human being, for honesty, and for humility, with teachings of Pope Francis on migration.
Reflections
Poems from John Deeney (‘Easter Vigil: The Pantheon, Rome’) and Clare Bryden (‘Continue in My Word’).
Always Be Ready
Michael Downey shows how hope is the very heart and centre of human living, always moving through and beyond the present moment.
Why I Became a Theologian
John Scally pays tribute to the late Raphael Gallagher, C.Ss.R.
A Council 800 Years ago, and a Synod today
Thomas F. O’Meara sees links between the reform policies of Pope Gregory X, who summoned the Council of Lyon (1274), and of Pope Francis, even to the point that, while one received Mongols at an Ecumenical Council, the other visited Mongolia.
The Journey to Baptism
Patrick Jones leads the reader on an informed journey along the steps of the journey which is The Christian Initiation of Adults.
St Patrick – Mirror of God’s Love
Iva Beranek quarries the Confessio of St Patrick to appreciate his deep love for God, and his call to the Irish people to take that love to heart for themselves today.
Living without a Why
Mary T. Malone introduces the thinking and witness of the Beguine Marguerite Porete (died 1301), author of The Mirror of Simple Souls.
Discovering the Gift of Silence
Martin McGee shows how times of silence are crucial to our mental and spiritual well-being.
Has Ireland’s Development Model Run out of Road?
David Begg demonstrates how industrial policy in Ireland has had to change direction many times since the foundation of the state. Wars and geopolitical tension, a retreat from globalisation and an isolationist administration in the US, could all negatively affect foreign direct investment and multinationals already located here.
Simone Weil: An Apostle for Truth for a Post-truth World?
Richard Clarke introduces the life and radical thinking of ‘the patron saint of outsiders’ who demonstrated that the pursuit of truth can never be without cost, personal and social.
John McGahern’s Priesthood
Mark Patrick Hederman engages with John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun (both the book and the film) in view of the fact that the writer seemed to spend much of his life making up to his mother for turning down the vocation to the priesthood she had always had in mind for him.
Pluralism and Intolerance
Brian Merry explores the question of whether pluralism has an unconscious bias, an inbuilt intolerance of vulnerability and imperfection.
Impediments or Openings to New Life?
Céline Mangan reviews The Stones of the Last Week: Impediments to Holy Week, by Bonnie Thurston
Embodying the Christian Community
Vivian Boland reviews Tilling the Church: Theology for an Unfinished Project, by Richard Lennan.
Negotiating University Challenges
Brendan McConvery reviews Living with My Century: a Memoir, by Eda Sagarra
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