2022: Volume 111

Gerald O’Collins

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  Three Parables from Luke- The Vision of Peter Steele SJ

  Gerald O’Collins

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  Three parables from St Luke’s Gospel provide themes for sonnets composed by Australian Jesuit, the late Peter Steele (1939–2012) and are quoted here with permission: ‘Man on Donkey’ (Lk 10:25–37), ‘Prodigal’ (15:11–32), and ‘Lazarus at the Gate’ (16:19–31). In none of the three cases does the poet attempt to translate into verse the entire parable. His sonnets regularly take up only sections of the parables.

  Beaten, still breathing, as awkward as a dog,
  He swags across the donkey, unaware
  Of who’s beside them, footsore in the slog
  Uphill for shelter and a kind of care.

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  Women’s Prophetic Voice for the Church

  Gráinne Doherty

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  I sort of feel I’m still in there – as tentatively as I am – because I believe in the ability of the Church to change. I believe it can change. And I believe that it will change. And I want to be part of that.

  These are the words of Ita, who shared her faith story with me as part of some research I recently conducted in Ireland on the relationship of women with the Catholic Church.

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  Writing History with Female Religious Communities- Medieval and Modern Hagiography

  Máirín MacCarron

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  The importance of hagiographies for the study of early medieval history cannot be overstated. These texts are used to illuminate contemporary social, religious, and political practices, and to understand the intellectual environment of hagiographers. However, an over-emphasis on the hagiographer’s agenda, though crucial for understanding a work’s historical context, sometimes introduces too great a separation between their endeavour as an individual and the role of their protagonist’s community in preserving and curating their own history. This disparity can be particularly pronounced for female religious figures, as the earliest surviving sources concerning their lives often came from outside their monasteries and were written by men.

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