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New Fault-lines in Europe: the Political Consequences of Brexit
John Bruton
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New Fault-lines in Europe: the Political Consequences of Brexit
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Newman’s Idea of a Tutor and its Implementation at the Catholic University
Paul Shrimpton
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John Henry Newman was invited to become the founding rector of the Catholic University in July 1851. Soon after accepting he announced his intention to combine the professorial and tutorial systems in his plans, adding that ‘the principal making of men must be by the Tutorial system’. A year later, he explained that at Oxford the ‘real working men were, not the Professors, but the Tutors’, and that he wished this to be the case in Dublin as well.
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Newman’s Idea of a University
Finola Kennedy
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Newman’s journey to Dublin began with an invitation in 1851 from Archbishop Cullen of Armagh – shortly afterwards to become Archbishop of Dublin – to advise on the proposed establishment of a Catholic University. He also asked Newman if he ‘could spare time to give us a few lectures on education’. These ‘few lectures’ would form the Dublin Discourses and ultimately The Idea of a University. There was a total of nine discourses, five of which were delivered in Dublin.
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Newman’s Idea of Development: A Note
Dermot Roantree
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In March of this year (2023), Joseph Strickland, Bishop of Tyler, Texas, long a vocal critic of Pope Francis, accused the bishops behind the German ‘synodal way’ of using Newman’s concept of the development of doctrine as a vehicle to push false teaching forward. In his support, he quoted a 2017 First Things essay by Michael Pakaluk, Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy at the Catholic University of America. Newman’s theory, Pakaluk wrote, had its origin in the Commonitorium of St Vincent of Lérins, the main preoccupation of which was to show that the contents of the faith are unalterable. The Commonitorium, written in the 430s, was the first sustained theological effort to establish criteria by which the true development of doctrine could be distinguished from heresy. It was hugely influential, especially for the two principles at its core: firstly, that the Church must ensure that it holds ‘that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all’ (quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est – often called the Vincentian canon);4 and secondly, that development in the teachings of the Church must be an advance of established teaching (profectus), not a reversal (permutatio).
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Newman’s ‘Campaign in Ireland’: Frustration and ‘Failure’
Paul Shrimpton
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It is an honour to be asked to speak about St John Henry Newman in the Catholic University Church that he built and where he preached on eight occasions. I am grateful to the Newman Centres at UCD and Notre Dame for inviting me to speak. What I have to say draws largely on the two documents that make up My Campaign in Ireland, Part II: a long memorandum by Newman entitled ‘My Connection with the Catholic University’ (which I will refer to as the Memorandum) and a much longer, related item entitled ‘Extracts from Letters’ (or simply Extracts).
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On Active Service in Ireland in a Troubled Decade 1915-25
Padraig Murray
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My father Pa Murray was a quiet man, and as we grew up he rarely spoke in detail of his experiences. However, my parents kept an open house, and our visitors were many and varied, mostly relatives from Derry and Cork, and also many names from the past as well. I first became conscious of this during the war years and afterwards when in winter months all activity was confined to a single room because of fuel shortages.
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On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine: From Newman to the Second Vatican Council and Beyond
Fáinche Ryan
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On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine: From Newman to the Second Vatican Council and Beyond
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On Retreat with the Jesuit Pope
Austen Ivereigh
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Somewhere between my two biographical books about Pope Francis I realized I’d written out a vital protagonist. When it came out, right at the start of the pontificate, The Great Reformer had a good title that has stood the test of time.
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One Hundred Years of Dáil Éireann 1918–2018: Elections, Personalities and Issues
Anthony White
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Anthony White writes of the centenary of Dail Eireann, examining the profiles of Irish TDs over one hundred years of uninterrupted parliamentary democracy.
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Ornithic Joyce- An Egregiously Preliminary Round of Avian Observations
James McElroy
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Ronald Bates published an article entitled ‘The Correspondence of Birds to Things of the Intellect’ in the James Joyce Quarterly of Summer 1965. In his article Bates identified a species of ‘ornithic’ guise that he claimed to be a common trait in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Parish Pastoral Councils and Community
Séamus Lillis
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Viewing Parish Pastoral Councils (PPCs) as community organisations delivers helpful insights into their supplementary relevance to the Catholic Church in Ireland.
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Partition- Are there two nations on the Island of Ireland, and could they be Fused into One?
John Bruton
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There are increasingly loud calls to prepare for a border poll, one outcome of which might be the unification of Ireland, the end of partition, and the end of UK sovereignty over Northern Ireland. These calls rely on the provision in the Belfast Agreement of 1998 that says that, if the British secretary of state is of the opinion that a majority in Northern Ireland would support unification with the rest of Ireland, he or she shall hold a poll in Northern Ireland to allow the electorate there to make that choice.