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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
January -February 2026
Scholarship and Pastoral Care
Ambassador Frances Collins and Fr Viliam Doci lead a survey and appreciation of the achievements of Leonard Boyle (1923–1999), prefect of the Vatican Library.
February
Mary Lee contributes a poem reflecting on ‘the month of seed catalogues’.
Shame – Something Is Amiss
Brian Merry looks at the ambiguities and turmoil of changing our ways and managing shame.
Amateur Theology
Ben Harrison looks back on notebooks of over three decades as he tries to clarify matters of faith for himself.
The Silent Song?
Brendan McConvery offers an appreciative reading of ‘one of the most attractive and one of the most controversial books in the Bible’.
Printing a New Lectionary
Thomas O’Loughlin wonders if producing a new lectionary is a good idea, in view of the particular strengths of the various Bible translations available, while insisting that we must employ in the liturgy only accurate translations.
When the People Have Assembled
Liam Kelly shows how the changes in worship over the past half century have involved a move away from being priest-centred, and sees a similar dynamic in the synodal process.
Hope – A Reflection on Julian of Norwich’s Knowings
Stefan Reynolds shows how, for the fourteenth century anchorite, ‘life is a “medley”. The robe of our future glory is made from the texture, colours and shades of our experience now.’
Can Ireland Be Called Anti-Semitic
Taoioseach Micheál Martin looks to the work of historian Dermot Keogh to comment on the position of Jews in Ireland (the only country outside Israel to have given the Jewish community constitutional recognition).
The Future Evolution of Workplace Relations
David Begg looks at the first 10 years of the Workplace Relations Commission and at the need that it be agile and effective in responding to whatever labour market changes turn out to be inherent in the current rapidly evolving environment.
Seamus Heaney’s Portals into the Unknown
Mark Patrick Hederman sees in the work of one of the great poets of the natural world, no layering of experience. There is another reality; but it is within this one.
Jane Austen: 250 Years since the Birth of the Literary Giant
Iva Beranek compares the author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility to ‘a flower that blossomed out of snow-covered earth, in conditions that weren’t perfect. The struggles she went through, financial and otherwise, shaped her character and literary brilliance.’
Lord, Hear My Prayer
John Scaly reviews The Genital Prayerbook, 2025 Edition.
Thomas Aquinas
Bernard Treacy introduces some of the work of the saint whose feast day is 28 January, and a portrait by Flemish-born artist Albert Carpentier.
Conversations
January -February 2026
Scholarship and Pastoral Care
Ambassador Frances Collins and Fr Viliam Doci lead a survey and appreciation of the achievements of Leonard Boyle (1923–1999), prefect of the Vatican Library.
February
Mary Lee contributes a poem reflecting on ‘the month of seed catalogues’.
Shame – Something Is Amiss
Brian Merry looks at the ambiguities and turmoil of changing our ways and managing shame.
Amateur Theology
Ben Harrison looks back on notebooks of over three decades as he tries to clarify matters of faith for himself.
The Silent Song?
Brendan McConvery offers an appreciative reading of ‘one of the most attractive and one of the most controversial books in the Bible’.
Printing a New Lectionary
Thomas O’Loughlin wonders if producing a new lectionary is a good idea, in view of the particular strengths of the various Bible translations available, while insisting that we must employ in the liturgy only accurate translations.
When the People Have Assembled
Liam Kelly shows how the changes in worship over the past half century have involved a move away from being priest-centred, and sees a similar dynamic in the synodal process.
Hope – A Reflection on Julian of Norwich’s Knowings
Stefan Reynolds shows how, for the fourteenth century anchorite, ‘life is a “medley”. The robe of our future glory is made from the texture, colours and shades of our experience now.’
Can Ireland Be Called Anti-Semitic
Taoioseach Micheál Martin looks to the work of historian Dermot Keogh to comment on the position of Jews in Ireland (the only country outside Israel to have given the Jewish community constitutional recognition).
The Future Evolution of Workplace Relations
David Begg looks at the first 10 years of the Workplace Relations Commission and at the need that it be agile and effective in responding to whatever labour market changes turn out to be inherent in the current rapidly evolving environment.
Seamus Heaney’s Portals into the Unknown
Mark Patrick Hederman sees in the work of one of the great poets of the natural world, no layering of experience. There is another reality; but it is within this one.
Jane Austen: 250 Years since the Birth of the Literary Giant
Iva Beranek compares the author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility to ‘a flower that blossomed out of snow-covered earth, in conditions that weren’t perfect. The struggles she went through, financial and otherwise, shaped her character and literary brilliance.’
Lord, Hear My Prayer
John Scaly reviews The Genital Prayerbook, 2025 Edition.
Thomas Aquinas
Bernard Treacy introduces some of the work of the saint whose feast day is 28 January, and a portrait by Flemish-born artist Albert Carpentier.
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