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Conversations January-February 2025 To mark the centenary of his birth the issue is dedicated to the memory of Austin Flannery, O.P. (1925-2008), for 30 years editor of Doctrine & Life, founder of Religious Life Review, of Scripture in Church, and of Spirituality, and general editor of Vatican Council II: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations. When Oxford Turns to Narnia Iva Beranek visits Oxford with an eye to the works and life-story of C.S. Lewis. Family Placements for Single Pregnant Women Margaret Lee and Stephanie Walsh recall how Ireland of the 1970s and 80s was a cold place for a single woman becoming pregnant, and how family placements gave them security, away from scrutiny and free of the need to enter a mother-and-baby home. Synodality in an Inter-faith World Archbishop Michael Jackson relates Pope Francis’ synodality initiative to the Five Marks of Mission identified within the Anglican Communion. Management not Ministry: the Future of Women in the Catholic Church? Phyllis Zagano, a member of the 2013-2016 Pontifical Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women, lists ways in which more and more management positions in the Church are open to women, including in the Vatican, but the question of admitting women to ordained ministry as deacons continues to be postponed. Synodality in the Early Church VI: Mission Sara Parvis shows a cooperative, synodal approach was central to the mission of the early generations of Christians . A Man for Our Season? Reading Aquinas 800 Years on Vivian Boland explore aspects of the life and writing of Thomas Aquinas, died 1274. Eucharistic Prayers: The Church’s Need for Being Specific Thomas O’Loughlin argues that there is a pastoral and liturgical need to go beyond the present portfolio of Eucharistic prayers, and enable the prayer to be expressive of a wider range of occasional and spiritual needs. Praying for the Pope Patrick H, Daly reflects on an occasion in the Vatican when Pope Francis pleaded with each person present, ’Please, please pray for me.’ A Hardline Catholic Nationalist in the White House David Begg discovers that J.D. Vance, about to become Vice-President of the USA, has, in the past, allied himself with the thinking of Catholic social philosopher Patrick Deneen, with its emphasis on the common good. He hopes that Mr Vance will distance himself from his oligarch sponsors and embrace the common-good conservatism of Patrick Deneen. A Spring Dawn Mary Lee offers a seasonal poem. Yves Congar and His Story Andrew Meszaros examines the interplay between events in the life of Yves Congar and his theological writings, so influential in shaping Vatican II. Be Still and Know John Scally reviews Calming the Storms, by Richard Hendricks A Compassionate Observer T.P. O’Mahony reviews Keeping the Faith, by Alf McCreary. A Pair of Boots Kevin O’Donnell meditates on the Van Gogh painting ‘Old Boots’ and on the father of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper, clutching his son’s football boots for hours on end.

Conversations

January-February 2025

To mark the centenary of his birth the issue is dedicated to the memory of Austin Flannery, O.P. (1925-2008), for 30 years editor of Doctrine & Life, founder of Religious Life Review, of Scripture in Church, and of Spirituality, and general editor of Vatican Council II: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations.

When Oxford Turns to Narnia

Iva Beranek visits Oxford with an eye to the works and life-story of C.S. Lewis.

Family Placements for Single Pregnant Women

Margaret Lee and Stephanie Walsh recall how Ireland of the 1970s and 80s was a cold place for a single woman becoming pregnant, and how family placements gave them security, away from scrutiny and free of the need to enter a mother-and-baby home.

Synodality in an Inter-faith World

Archbishop Michael Jackson relates Pope Francis’ synodality initiative to the Five Marks of Mission identified within the Anglican Communion.

Management not Ministry: the Future of Women in the Catholic Church?

Phyllis Zagano, a member of the 2013-2016 Pontifical Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women, lists ways in which more and more management positions in the Church are open to women, including in the Vatican, but the question of admitting women to ordained ministry as deacons continues to be postponed.

Synodality in the Early Church VI: Mission

Sara Parvis shows a cooperative, synodal approach was central to the mission of the early generations of Christians .

A Man for Our Season? Reading Aquinas 800 Years on

Vivian Boland explore aspects of the life and writing of Thomas Aquinas, died 1274.

Eucharistic Prayers: The Church’s Need for Being Specific

Thomas O’Loughlin argues that there is a pastoral and liturgical need to go beyond the present portfolio of Eucharistic prayers, and enable the prayer to be expressive of a wider range of occasional and spiritual needs.

Praying for the Pope

Patrick H, Daly reflects on an occasion in the Vatican when Pope Francis pleaded with each person present, ’Please, please pray for me.’

A Hardline Catholic Nationalist in the White House

David Begg discovers that J.D. Vance, about to become Vice-President of the USA, has, in the past, allied himself with the thinking of Catholic social philosopher Patrick Deneen, with its emphasis on the common good. He hopes that Mr Vance will distance himself from his oligarch sponsors and embrace the common-good conservatism of Patrick Deneen.

A Spring Dawn

Mary Lee offers a seasonal poem.

Yves Congar and His Story

Andrew Meszaros examines the interplay between events in the life of Yves Congar and his theological writings, so influential in shaping Vatican II.

Be Still and Know

John Scally reviews Calming the Storms, by Richard Hendricks

A Compassionate Observer

T.P. O’Mahony reviews Keeping the Faith, by Alf McCreary.

A Pair of Boots

Kevin O’Donnell meditates on the Van Gogh painting ‘Old Boots’ and on the father of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper, clutching his son’s football boots for hours on end.

Conversations

January-February 2025

To mark the centenary of his birth the issue is dedicated to the memory of Austin Flannery, O.P. (1925-2008), for 30 years editor of Doctrine & Life, founder of Religious Life Review, of Scripture in Church, and of Spirituality, and general editor of Vatican Council II: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations.

When Oxford Turns to Narnia

Iva Beranek visits Oxford with an eye to the works and life-story of C.S. Lewis.

Family Placements for Single Pregnant Women

Margaret Lee and Stephanie Walsh recall how Ireland of the 1970s and 80s was a cold place for a single woman becoming pregnant, and how family placements gave them security, away from scrutiny and free of the need to enter a mother-and-baby home.

Synodality in an Inter-faith World

Archbishop Michael Jackson relates Pope Francis’ synodality initiative to the Five Marks of Mission identified within the Anglican Communion.

Management not Ministry: the Future of Women in the Catholic Church?

Phyllis Zagano, a member of the 2013-2016 Pontifical Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women, lists ways in which more and more management positions in the Church are open to women, including in the Vatican, but the question of admitting women to ordained ministry as deacons continues to be postponed.

Synodality in the Early Church VI: Mission

Sara Parvis shows a cooperative, synodal approach was central to the mission of the early generations of Christians .

A Man for Our Season? Reading Aquinas 800 Years on

Vivian Boland explore aspects of the life and writing of Thomas Aquinas, died 1274.

Eucharistic Prayers: The Church’s Need for Being Specific

Thomas O’Loughlin argues that there is a pastoral and liturgical need to go beyond the present portfolio of Eucharistic prayers, and enable the prayer to be expressive of a wider range of occasional and spiritual needs.

Praying for the Pope

Patrick H, Daly reflects on an occasion in the Vatican when Pope Francis pleaded with each person present, ’Please, please pray for me.’

A Hardline Catholic Nationalist in the White House

David Begg discovers that J.D. Vance, about to become Vice-President of the USA, has, in the past, allied himself with the thinking of Catholic social philosopher Patrick Deneen, with its emphasis on the common good. He hopes that Mr Vance will distance himself from his oligarch sponsors and embrace the common-good conservatism of Patrick Deneen.

A Spring Dawn

Mary Lee offers a seasonal poem.

Yves Congar and His Story

Andrew Meszaros examines the interplay between events in the life of Yves Congar and his theological writings, so influential in shaping Vatican II.

Be Still and Know

John Scally reviews Calming the Storms, by Richard Hendricks

A Compassionate Observer

T.P. O’Mahony reviews Keeping the Faith, by Alf McCreary.

A Pair of Boots

Kevin O’Donnell meditates on the Van Gogh painting ‘Old Boots’ and on the father of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper, clutching his son’s football boots for hours on end.