Articles

‘Pastoral Theology?’ Mark Maguire explains why it is for everyone, and where his inspiration comes from.

What is to be the New Normal for the Irish Church? Fr Gerry O’Hanlon SJ considers the TV series Normal People, the ongoing Covid-19 Crisis – and synodality.

It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb.

After Jesus had taken the wine he said, ‘It is fulfilled’; and bowing his head he gave up his spirit.

Unprecedented global crisis, growing disillusionment with ‘charismatic’ political leadership, the young outraged. Thomas Reese in the NCR sees reasons for Advent hope.

The Netflix ‘Messiah’ misses key aspects of Jesus’s first coming, especially his teachings on the Holy Spirit.

In the midst of their own agony, do the sailors of America’s ‘Big Stick’, struggling against a nanometric and covert airborne enemy, realise what a victory has already been won?

Derry’s ‘Search’ teenagers are praying together online during the Coronavirus crisis. Why are so many young people ‘missing’ elsewhere?

A totally different world has suddenly come into being – in which we depend upon ‘neighbours’ who take unknown risks for us. Leaders must suddenly attend to a lock-down world that will certainly never again be what it was.