2022: Volume 111
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Sovereignty and Strife
Giovanni Giordini
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSovereignty is the power of command in the last instance, the power to make the ultimate decision. It may include different prerogatives in different political orders, but it has the intrinsic characteristic of being ultimate, the final decision; this means that no one has the right to oppose or overturn the sovereign’s decision.
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Studies Winter 2022: Light in Dark Times
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Studies, Spring 2022: The Courage to Speak Freely
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Surviving the Secular: Faith, Grief, Parody
Michael Kirwan
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn The Diary of a Country Priest, George Bernanos offers an unsettling
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[T]he Church is not only … a kind of sovereign state with laws, officials, armies – a moment, as glorious as you please, in human history. The Church is on the march through time as a regiment marches through strange country, cut off from all its ordinary supplies. The Church lives on successive regimes and societies, as the soldiers would from day to day on the inhabitants.
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Synodality- Some Scriptural Perspectives on Communio, Peripheries and the Sensus Fidei
Jessie Rogers
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSynodality is so much more than the current pope’s pet project or a passing fad. ‘It is precisely this path of synodality which God expects of the church of the third millennium.’ The challenge of synodality – to walk together as the whole people of God – is consonant with fundamental convictions that find expression in the New Testament. Scripture, therefore, offers a rich resource for helping us to imagine the life and mission of the church in a synodal key.
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Taking Back Control- The Role of the EU
John O’Hagan
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt was noted by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) that there are some issues whose influence permeates national boundaries and give rise to problems which individual states, or even limited coalitions of states, are no longer able to influence, let alone control (see Habermas, 2012). Habermas was writing shortly after the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. Since then, of course, we have had the climate crisis issue, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine.
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The Case for Theology in the University
Con J. Casey
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn 2012 the board of Trinity College Dublin agreed to establish an institute for teaching and research in theology in the Catholic tradition. The institute, to be called the Loyola Institute, was to be on campus, and its academic discipline would be among the multidisciplinary academic engagements which comprised the mission and raison d’etre of Trinity College.
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The Changed Reality of Being a Catholic Priest in Today’s Ireland
John Littleton
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleI was ordained a Catholic priest on 8 June 1986. That is nearly forty years ago, indeed probably half my lifetime. Over the decades since then, my personal reflections along with my conversations with family members, colleagues and parishioners have persuaded me that the experience of being a priest in Ireland in 2022 differs greatly from that of the 1980s and earlier times.
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The Future of the Catholic Church in Ireland: Synodality and the Wounds of Abuse
Gerry O’Hanlon
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€7.00 Purchase Single Article‘Where does thinking get us?’ she said. ‘All thinking does is bring you down… If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore, so you can keep on’ – Eileen in Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
‘Commendable efforts have been made to prevent a recurrence and, in many ways, the social conditions which gave rise to those realities have passed away. However, the reckoning with these truths has yet to happen for the Church as a whole, and for Irish society as a whole’ – Dermot McCarthy
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The Irish General Election of June 1922
Anthony White
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe general election of 16 June 1922 has not been widely regarded as especially significant among historians. It has been overshadowed by the inevitable concentration on the civil war, which commenced within two weeks of that election. It can nevertheless be argued that it was one of the most important elections in the history of Dáil Éireann and of the Irish state.
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