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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Spring 2019
Catholic Education in a New Ireland
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The Spring 2019 issue of Studies examines Catholic education in 21st century Ireland and discusses whether a commitment to recognising the pluralism of modern Ireland created an environment that is hostile to Catholic education.
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Summer Studies 2018 | Doing Theology in Dangerous Times
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Surviving the Secular: Faith, Grief, Parody
Michael Kirwan
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In The Diary of a Country Priest, George Bernanos offers an unsettling
image:
[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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Synodality 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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It 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.