Category: Articles
Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love): Reviewed by Aidan Hart
With Pope Francis soon to come to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families, his encyclical dedicated to the family - Amoris Laetitia - is especially relevant. Aidan Hart's article of 2016 gets to the heart of a papal document like no other.
read moreACI WMOF EVENT – April 14th, 2018
ACI to consult families that are currently marginalised in the Irish Church - on Saturday April 14th, 2018.
read moreLaity are revolutionising faith practice in the community
Angela Hanley argues that alienation from an over-centralised church system is provoking a quiet backlash at the base of the Irish Church.
read moreInternet: Global Prison?
Is the Internet now the world's biggest prison? If so, might Christian faith be the best key to release? Sean O'Conaill thinks that Charles Dickens helps out here.
read moreCatholic Church Reform International (CCRI): UPDATE
FIVE WAYS IN WHICH POPE FRANCIS HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED HOW WE SEE THE CHURCH AND HOW YOU CAN OFFER YOUR SUPPORT
read moreTime for Public Theology – Johnston McMaster of the ISE
"To develop public theology in the 21st century is to take seriously faith and ethics as applied to public questions." Dr Johnston McMaster of the Irish School of Ecumenics.
read moreIs Archbishop Diarmuid Martin failing Dublin?
Justly celebrated for his handling of the abuse catastrophe in Dublin, must Archbishop Martin nevertheless accept some responsibility for the fact that 'Irish Catholicism hasn't changed'?
read more2018: A year of rescue from the belly of the whale?
With no guarantee that 'bad news' will end soon, might the Irish Catholic Church turn a corner even so in 2018 - with the visit of Pope Francis?
read moreThe ‘war’ against Pope Francis: where do Irish bishops stand?
What exactly divides Pope Francis from those who oppose him? Sean O'Conaill takes issue with the Manchester Guardian's account of this profoundly important dispute.
read moreA Church in Travail: Aidan Hart
In what so many experience as a 'Dark Night of the Church' Aidan Hart argues that a sincere apology for failure, and forgiveness for those who have failed, can bring a new beginning.
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