SINGLE ISSUE Conversations - November/December 2025
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Conversations – November/December 2025 (Single Issue)
This issue focuses on synodality in the life of the Church, featuring Cardinal Mario Grech on From Vatican Council II to a Synodal Church and Julieann Moran on Receiving the Council’s Unfolding Gift—their full papers from the centenary celebration of Austin Flannery OP (1925–2025).
Also included are reflections on the 1700th anniversary of Nicea, Advent and Christmas, hope and suffering, faith and community, and resistance to war, with contributions from Sara Parvis, Bonnie Thurston, Mary T. Brien, Phil Mortell, David Begg, Geraldine Mitchell, Martin Henry, and Judith Tutin.
**SINGLE ISSUE**
Conversations - November-December 2025
This issue has a special focus on synodality in the life of the Church.
Cardinal Mario Grech traces the journey From Vatican Council II to a Synodal Church, while Julieann Moran reflects on what is now taking place as Receiving the Council’s Unfolding Gift. We are glad to carry, in full, the papers they gave at an evening to celebrate the centenary of the birth (1925–2025) of Austin Flannery. Both rejoiced in how the synodal movement gives practical effect to the Council’s teaching on the whole gathering of the baptised being indefectible in the faith. Thus, the synodal process is a listening to the Holy Spirit by listening to the sensus fidei given to all who are baptised through their anointing by the Spirit.
Other articles and authors featured in this issue include:
The place of councils in the life of the Church arises keenly this year, the 1700th anniversary of the first ever ecumenical council held at Nicea in 325. In Nicea at 1700, Sara Parvis shows how this anniversary is an occasion of joy and hope and prompts rich theological debate.
To help focus on Advent and Christmas, Bonnie Thurston meditates, in From Small Beginnings, on the prophet Micah.
Mary T. Brien unpacks Paul’s teaching on hope in The Other Side of Suffering.
In Coffee Morning Christ, Phil Mortell advocates recovering the community life element of gathering for the Eucharist.
Do We Still Need Universities? sees David Begg revisit John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University, prompted by President Trump’s attack on American universities.
In War-time Resistance, Geraldine Mitchell revisits the writings of French pastor and pacifist Jean Lasserre, and author Jean Bruller, exploring how both used the power of the word to promote opposition and resistance to war.
In God and the Reality of Suffering, Martin Henry wrestles with one of the most agonising challenges facing both believer and non-believer.
The final article reflects on the 2011 painting Nativity by Judith Tutin, seeing her work as innovatively linked with a twelfth-century tradition.
**SINGLE ISSUE**
Conversations - November-December 2025
This issue has a special focus on synodality in the life of the Church.
Cardinal Mario Grech traces the journey From Vatican Council II to a Synodal Church, while Julieann Moran reflects on what is now taking place as Receiving the Council’s Unfolding Gift. We are glad to carry, in full, the papers they gave at an evening to celebrate the centenary of the birth (1925–2025) of Austin Flannery. Both rejoiced in how the synodal movement gives practical effect to the Council’s teaching on the whole gathering of the baptised being indefectible in the faith. Thus, the synodal process is a listening to the Holy Spirit by listening to the sensus fidei given to all who are baptised through their anointing by the Spirit.
Other articles and authors featured in this issue include:
The place of councils in the life of the Church arises keenly this year, the 1700th anniversary of the first ever ecumenical council held at Nicea in 325. In Nicea at 1700, Sara Parvis shows how this anniversary is an occasion of joy and hope and prompts rich theological debate.
To help focus on Advent and Christmas, Bonnie Thurston meditates, in From Small Beginnings, on the prophet Micah.
Mary T. Brien unpacks Paul’s teaching on hope in The Other Side of Suffering.
In Coffee Morning Christ, Phil Mortell advocates recovering the community life element of gathering for the Eucharist.
Do We Still Need Universities? sees David Begg revisit John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University, prompted by President Trump’s attack on American universities.
In War-time Resistance, Geraldine Mitchell revisits the writings of French pastor and pacifist Jean Lasserre, and author Jean Bruller, exploring how both used the power of the word to promote opposition and resistance to war.
In God and the Reality of Suffering, Martin Henry wrestles with one of the most agonising challenges facing both believer and non-believer.
The final article reflects on the 2011 painting Nativity by Judith Tutin, seeing her work as innovatively linked with a twelfth-century tradition.
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