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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 2026
An Augustinian Pope
Bernard Treacy identifies the influence of teaching by St Augustine in statements of Pope Leo
Do What To You Give Yourself?
Mary Lee offers a poetic reflection.
An Unexpected Life
Gerard Cleator reflects on the experience of undergoing disability at the end of life.
And the Women Were there …
Gillian Hick sees a link between the women who visited the tomb of Jesus and women visiting loved ones in prison.
Bearings Taken in a Journey with Jesus
Ben Harrison shares excerpts from his spiritual journals.
The Vatican and Women Deacons
Phyllis Zagano reviews the process and pace of Vatican and synodal consideration of the possibility of women being ordained deacons.
Clearing the Stones in Our Lives
Jan Kilby helps us recognise that that obstacles occur not because of Mother Nature but because of our human nature.
Religion of the Book
Liam Kelly reflects on the implications of the decision by the earliest Christians to set down their Scriptures in book form rather than as a scroll – something fundamental had changed in the history of ideas and in the history of religion.
Threefold Conversion
Michael H. Marchal concludes that in Christian initiation the goal is not just helping achieve more knowledge about Jesus but a deeper encounter with the many ways in which he is present to us – especially liturgically.
Immigration Policy Is Hard
David Begg recognizes Ireland’s need to increase the numbers in the workforce if it is avoid a catastrophe in providing for the elderly. Should this be done by immigration or by extending the age of retirement?
Lebanon: The Real War and the War of Words
Ian Linden shows how an infinite gulf exists between the will of a loving, merciful and compassionate God and the will to power that states, and non-state actors, exert in war.
What Really Happened at Lughnasa?
Mark Patrick Hederman brings together the plot of the Brian Friel play and accounts of hedonism on the streets of Mullingar at the first Fleadh Cheoil in 1963.
Religion and Reason
Philip Cremin is prompted by news of the death of the German philosopher and public intellectual Jurgen Habermas to re-visit a public conversation, in 2004, between him and Joseph Ratzinger.
Has Christianity Become Tasteless?
Martin Henry remembers that the fate of Christianity, like the fate of the world, is guided by God, not determined by us.
Practise What You Preach
John Scally reviews The Irish Dominicans: 800 Years, 1224-2024
Service and Empathy
Jackie Minnock reviews Called to an Extraordinary Venture in Faith
Challenges for Catholic Education
Breda O’Brien reviews Living Ethos: Exploring the Heart and Practice of Living School Ethos.
Conversations
May-June 2026
An Augustinian Pope
Bernard Treacy identifies the influence of teaching by St Augustine in statements of Pope Leo
Do What To You Give Yourself?
Mary Lee offers a poetic reflection.
An Unexpected Life
Gerard Cleator reflects on the experience of undergoing disability at the end of life.
And the Women Were there …
Gillian Hick sees a link between the women who visited the tomb of Jesus and women visiting loved ones in prison.
Bearings Taken in a Journey with Jesus
Ben Harrison shares excerpts from his spiritual journals.
The Vatican and Women Deacons
Phyllis Zagano reviews the process and pace of Vatican and synodal consideration of the possibility of women being ordained deacons.
Clearing the Stones in Our Lives
Jan Kilby helps us recognise that that obstacles occur not because of Mother Nature but because of our human nature.
Religion of the Book
Liam Kelly reflects on the implications of the decision by the earliest Christians to set down their Scriptures in book form rather than as a scroll – something fundamental had changed in the history of ideas and in the history of religion.
Threefold Conversion
Michael H. Marchal concludes that in Christian initiation the goal is not just helping achieve more knowledge about Jesus but a deeper encounter with the many ways in which he is present to us – especially liturgically.
Immigration Policy Is Hard
David Begg recognizes Ireland’s need to increase the numbers in the workforce if it is avoid a catastrophe in providing for the elderly. Should this be done by immigration or by extending the age of retirement?
Lebanon: The Real War and the War of Words
Ian Linden shows how an infinite gulf exists between the will of a loving, merciful and compassionate God and the will to power that states, and non-state actors, exert in war.
What Really Happened at Lughnasa?
Mark Patrick Hederman brings together the plot of the Brian Friel play and accounts of hedonism on the streets of Mullingar at the first Fleadh Cheoil in 1963.
Religion and Reason
Philip Cremin is prompted by news of the death of the German philosopher and public intellectual Jurgen Habermas to re-visit a public conversation, in 2004, between him and Joseph Ratzinger.
Has Christianity Become Tasteless?
Martin Henry remembers that the fate of Christianity, like the fate of the world, is guided by God, not determined by us.
Practise What You Preach
John Scally reviews The Irish Dominicans: 800 Years, 1224-2024
Service and Empathy
Jackie Minnock reviews Called to an Extraordinary Venture in Faith
Challenges for Catholic Education
Breda O’Brien reviews Living Ethos: Exploring the Heart and Practice of Living School Ethos.
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