by MartinM | Jul 18, 2014 | Books
A meticulously researched inside look at child sexual abuse by clergy, this exhaustive, hard-hitting analysis weaves together interviews with abusive priests and church historical and administrative details to propose a new way of thinking about clerical sexual...
by MartinM | Feb 21, 2014 | Books
The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the Papacy marked a series of historic Papal firsts—first Jesuit, first from the Americas and first from the Southern Hemisphere. But most moving was his being the first to take the name of St. Francis. At a time when the...
by MartinM | Oct 14, 2013 | Books
The Catholic Church has been nearly destroyed by its resistance to change, censured for its abuses. Pope Francis has promised reform: radical theologian Hans Küng here presents what Catholics have long been yearning for: modern responses to the challenges of a...
by MartinM | Sep 13, 2013 | Articles, Books
Launch by Bill O’Herlihy of Fr. Tony Flannery’s new book, ‘A Question of Conscience’, 12th September 2013 at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin I first met Tony Flannery at his mother’s funeral. He said the funeral Mass...
by MartinM | Sep 10, 2013 | Books
The crisis of vocations in the Church demands an imaginative response. Might part-time priests be the answer? There are theological foundations in the bible supporting this idea. There are insights to be gained too from listening to the modern...
by MartinM | Sep 2, 2013 | Books
By Tony Flannery In February 2012 Tony Flannery, a Redemptorist and founder member of the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland, bestselling author and regular columnist with Reality magazine, was informed that the Vatican watchdog, the Congregation for the...
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