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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
May-June 2025
Pope and Patriarch at Nicaea
Bernard Treacy looks at what it would have meant if Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew had been able to celebrate together the 1700th anniversary of the first council of the Church.
A Prayer to the One
John F. Deane offers a poem meditating on world events in the light of John 17:22, while walking among familiar sites on Achill Island.
Combatting Religious Illiteracy
Patrick H. Daly pays tribute to Cardinal Christof Schönborn, on the occasion of his retirement.
Reflections at the Graveside of Martin Luther
T.P. O’Mahony travels to Wittenberg where he finds himself pulling together strands of thinking which long for major Church reform.
Everyone welcome
Clare Bryden’s poem meditates on a Gospel verse, Matthew 7:8b
Remembering Fr Raymond Murray of Armagh
John Cooney pays tribute to the Armagh priest who co-founded the Human Rights Institute that documented abuses, which were cited by the Irish Government at the European Commission for Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The Holy Trinity Understood
Kevin O’Donnell finds avenues towards understanding in the film Brief Encounter, in the account in Genesis of Abraham at the Oak of Mamre, in the statement of Archbishop Anthony Bloom that coming before God was like entering the cave of a tiger, and in the vision of 1 Kings that God’s presence is known in a still small voice.
Focussing on Baptism
Thomas O’Loughlin makes clear that sharing in Baptism is at the root of synodality; and that recovering a richer theology of Baptism involves combining a patristic understanding with reviving scholastic analysis, while valuing modern ecumenical documents.
Nourished by Women Mystics
Mary T. Malone finds that her continuing involvement as a woman Christian is rooted in her discovering the ‘writing, teaching, preaching, and sheer brilliant spiritual inventiveness’ of women who flourished between 1150 and 1450.
Africa’s Putin
David Begg sets out the history of the creation of the states of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, and the role of Paul Kagame in the present troubles in the area.
The Common Good in a Time of Global Crisis
Ian Linden rejoices in Pope Francis’ insistence on the priority of the common good over sectional interests.
Priestly Fictions
Eamon Maher outlines the portraits of priests in works by George Moore ad Georges Bernanos.
What on Earth Is an Indulgence?
Vivian Boland recognizes that, though the concept of an indulgence has been abused, a proper understanding, within the doctrine of the communion of saints, is possible and morally correct practice can follow.
Observing, Reporting, Ruminating
James Harpur reviews This Glowing Place: New and Selected Poems, by Pádraig J. Daly.
Learning and Teaching
Thomas McCarthy reviews Walking with Ignatius, by Arturo Sosa.
A Life of Firsts
John Scally reviews Marie of the Incarnation Guyart Speaks to Us.
The Council of Nicaea: Mosaiced Creeds
Liam Bergin reflects on how mosaics in the Theodosia basilica at Aquileia, dedicated in 345, imaginatively communicate the teaching of the Council.
Conversations
May-June 2025
Pope and Patriarch at Nicaea
Bernard Treacy looks at what it would have meant if Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew had been able to celebrate together the 1700th anniversary of the first council of the Church.
A Prayer to the One
John F. Deane offers a poem meditating on world events in the light of John 17:22, while walking among familiar sites on Achill Island.
Combatting Religious Illiteracy
Patrick H. Daly pays tribute to Cardinal Christof Schönborn, on the occasion of his retirement.
Reflections at the Graveside of Martin Luther
T.P. O’Mahony travels to Wittenberg where he finds himself pulling together strands of thinking which long for major Church reform.
Everyone welcome
Clare Bryden’s poem meditates on a Gospel verse, Matthew 7:8b
Remembering Fr Raymond Murray of Armagh
John Cooney pays tribute to the Armagh priest who co-founded the Human Rights Institute that documented abuses, which were cited by the Irish Government at the European Commission for Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The Holy Trinity Understood
Kevin O’Donnell finds avenues towards understanding in the film Brief Encounter, in the account in Genesis of Abraham at the Oak of Mamre, in the statement of Archbishop Anthony Bloom that coming before God was like entering the cave of a tiger, and in the vision of 1 Kings that God’s presence is known in a still small voice.
Focussing on Baptism
Thomas O’Loughlin makes clear that sharing in Baptism is at the root of synodality; and that recovering a richer theology of Baptism involves combining a patristic understanding with reviving scholastic analysis, while valuing modern ecumenical documents.
Nourished by Women Mystics
Mary T. Malone finds that her continuing involvement as a woman Christian is rooted in her discovering the ‘writing, teaching, preaching, and sheer brilliant spiritual inventiveness’ of women who flourished between 1150 and 1450.
Africa’s Putin
David Begg sets out the history of the creation of the states of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, and the role of Paul Kagame in the present troubles in the area.
The Common Good in a Time of Global Crisis
Ian Linden rejoices in Pope Francis’ insistence on the priority of the common good over sectional interests.
Priestly Fictions
Eamon Maher outlines the portraits of priests in works by George Moore ad Georges Bernanos.
What on Earth Is an Indulgence?
Vivian Boland recognizes that, though the concept of an indulgence has been abused, a proper understanding, within the doctrine of the communion of saints, is possible and morally correct practice can follow.
Observing, Reporting, Ruminating
James Harpur reviews This Glowing Place: New and Selected Poems, by Pádraig J. Daly.
Learning and Teaching
Thomas McCarthy reviews Walking with Ignatius, by Arturo Sosa.
A Life of Firsts
John Scally reviews Marie of the Incarnation Guyart Speaks to Us.
The Council of Nicaea: Mosaiced Creeds
Liam Bergin reflects on how mosaics in the Theodosia basilica at Aquileia, dedicated in 345, imaginatively communicate the teaching of the Council.
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