by MartinM | Jan 2, 2018 | Articles, Featured
FIVE WAYS IN WHICH POPE FRANCIS HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED HOW WE SEE THE CHURCH In his four plus years, Pope Francis has had a profound impact on the church. True, he has not changed the church’s position on birth control, celibacy, women priests and gay...
by soconaill | Dec 22, 2017 | Articles, Featured
DOING PUBLIC THEOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY THE CHALLENGE OF OUR TIME We are living in a changing world. The West is in decline and the East is on the rise. The history of the West has been dominated by the Christian religion. WWI marked the end of Christendom. Imperial...
by soconaill | Dec 9, 2017 | Articles, Featured
“I could spend all my time being concerned about the people who come to church, but they’re — you know I don’t want to be nasty — but they’re a dying breed. … The situation is changing, but Irish Catholicism hasn’t...
by soconaill | Nov 30, 2017 | Articles, Books, Featured, Liturgy
Why exactly did we find ourselves in 2011 suddenly obliged to declare that Jesus as Son of God is ‘consubstantial’ with the Father? Why had it been supposed that this would clarify what had been meant by ‘of one being with’ the...
by soconaill | Nov 20, 2017 | Articles, Featured
So impossible is the Bible story of Jonah that we surely must take it as a sacred allegory, a storied metaphor for the many and varied disasters that can transform completely the lives of those who suffer them. Any of us can get thrown overboard when we least...
by soconaill | Oct 27, 2017 | Articles, Featured
“The central dispute is between Catholics who believe that the church should set the agenda for the world, and those who think the world must set the agenda for the church.” So wrote Andrew Brown in the Manchester Guardian on Friday October 27th, 2017...
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