Doctrine & Life
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Doctrine & Life fosters dialogue between inheritance of Christian faith and the concerns of today's world - religious, political, artistic and economic. It is Catholic and ecumenical in outlook as it analyses current dilemmas and charts developments in church life, including, questions of specific interest to members of religious orders. *Annual Subscription - 10 issues per year*
Coming up in the September 2023 Issue...
Doctrine & Life
September 2023
Dancing with Angels: Bible, Body and Cosmic Prayer
Dominic White, O.P., explores ways in which the Word of God could be expressed in dance. Drawing on passages from Scriptures and form the Fathers, he suggests that, while dancing around God, we are liberated from miserable lonely self-centredness and become re-centred on God, participating in his life and knowledge. This is the third article in our series ‘The Arts Interpreting the Bible’.
An Inculturated Liturgy: A Eucharistic Prayer Worthy of Study
Thomas O’Loughlin takes up a suggestion made by Dermot A. Lane in the May-June issue – that inculturating the liturgy should extend to praying in an idiom which recognizes and corresponds to our present-day understanding of the cosmos, and celebrating the wonder of this understanding of creation. He presents and examines a eucharistic prayer from the Anglican Church in Canada which appeals to common mental images most western Christians have of what our universe is like to the best of our scientific evidence today. Paying heed to the example set by this eucharistic prayer could be a form of receptive ecumenism.
Same-sex Unions and the Common Good
Charles E. Bouchard, O.P., while recognizing that sacramental marriage between persons of the same sex is not possible in the eyes of the Church, asks if there might be good reasons for consider granting limited recognition to same-sex unions as a civil institution.
Religious Life: Leadership, Power and Authority
Johanna Merry, aware of the many pressure point sin religious life today, offers a vision of what real leadership can be and can achieve.
What Is the Spirit Saying to the Churches on the Synodal Pathway?
Patrick H. Daly, at one time general secretary of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union, sees elements of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15), continuing in meetings of European bishops in preparation for the upcoming synod. He draws on the thoughts of Cardinal Zuppi of Bologna, that we must make of the Church a welcoming home, which we take care of one another, where the poor and the outcasts are not clients but brothers and sisters, and relating in ways that we can understand each other.
Is Christ Divided?
David Begg reviews To Sanctify the World: The Legacy of Vatican II, by George Weigel
The Power of Religion Harnessed
Paula MacNamara reviews The Politics of God: The Rise and Rise of Political Religion, by T.P. O’Mahony
Faith Finding Wonderful Understanding
Seamus Claffey reviews Song of the Goldfinch: A Memoir, by John F. Deane
An Enduring Friendship
John Scally reviews Absent Friend, by John MacKenna
Coming up in the September 2023 Issue...
Doctrine & Life
September 2023
Dancing with Angels: Bible, Body and Cosmic Prayer
Dominic White, O.P., explores ways in which the Word of God could be expressed in dance. Drawing on passages from Scriptures and form the Fathers, he suggests that, while dancing around God, we are liberated from miserable lonely self-centredness and become re-centred on God, participating in his life and knowledge. This is the third article in our series ‘The Arts Interpreting the Bible’.
An Inculturated Liturgy: A Eucharistic Prayer Worthy of Study
Thomas O’Loughlin takes up a suggestion made by Dermot A. Lane in the May-June issue – that inculturating the liturgy should extend to praying in an idiom which recognizes and corresponds to our present-day understanding of the cosmos, and celebrating the wonder of this understanding of creation. He presents and examines a eucharistic prayer from the Anglican Church in Canada which appeals to common mental images most western Christians have of what our universe is like to the best of our scientific evidence today. Paying heed to the example set by this eucharistic prayer could be a form of receptive ecumenism.
Same-sex Unions and the Common Good
Charles E. Bouchard, O.P., while recognizing that sacramental marriage between persons of the same sex is not possible in the eyes of the Church, asks if there might be good reasons for consider granting limited recognition to same-sex unions as a civil institution.
Religious Life: Leadership, Power and Authority
Johanna Merry, aware of the many pressure point sin religious life today, offers a vision of what real leadership can be and can achieve.
What Is the Spirit Saying to the Churches on the Synodal Pathway?
Patrick H. Daly, at one time general secretary of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union, sees elements of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15), continuing in meetings of European bishops in preparation for the upcoming synod. He draws on the thoughts of Cardinal Zuppi of Bologna, that we must make of the Church a welcoming home, which we take care of one another, where the poor and the outcasts are not clients but brothers and sisters, and relating in ways that we can understand each other.
Is Christ Divided?
David Begg reviews To Sanctify the World: The Legacy of Vatican II, by George Weigel
The Power of Religion Harnessed
Paula MacNamara reviews The Politics of God: The Rise and Rise of Political Religion, by T.P. O’Mahony
Faith Finding Wonderful Understanding
Seamus Claffey reviews Song of the Goldfinch: A Memoir, by John F. Deane
An Enduring Friendship
John Scally reviews Absent Friend, by John MacKenna
