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Tomáš Halík
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West and East_ Europe’s Dual Experience
Tomáš Halík
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe spirit of the West
When we speak of East and West in relation to Europe the terms usually have a cultural and political, rather than a geographical sense. The cultural differences between Christianity in the two areas stem from the difference between Greek and Latin thinking.
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What Constitutes a Catholic School in 2019? A Legal Perspective
Feichín McDonagh
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleWhat, in law, is a Catholic school? How do the Irish Constitution and the Education act 1998 regard a ‘Catholic school’ or for that matter any school with a religious patron?…
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Where has Cardinal Pell’s Case Brought Us in the Australian Church?
Frank Brennan SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticlePope John Paul II’s biographer George Weigel, writing the Introduction to Cardinal Pell’s Prison Journal, describes this writer as one who ‘had previously held no brief for Cardinal Pell’ and as ‘one who was a severe critic’.1 I plead guilty to both charges.
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Winter 2019
The Winter 2019 issue looks at the impact that the gig economy and other factors have on our attitudes and shifting priorities regarding the nature and future of human work – have we abandoned the dignity and integrity of the worker to the incessant demands of the marketplace?
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€10.00 Purchase Single ArticleA recent workshop held in Trinity College Dublin, Regulating the Future of Work: a Christian Ethics Perspective considered the insights that Christian Ethics can bring to the dialogue on working life. The Winter 2019 issue of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review reproduces all the papers delivered at the workshop, bringing the discussions and perceptions of the event to a broader platform for consideration.
As the marketplace reigns as King, the perception is that the economy today has become detached from ethics and that the needs of business outweigh those of the individual. What guidelines and philosophies should inform public dialogue when shaping policy and law? Catholic Social Teaching, with its focus on the common good and its emphasis on work as a source of human dignity and fulfilment, emerges as a significant source of wisdom and perception. It is argued that omission of this voice would deprive the conversation of valuable insights as we face the challenges of the evolving labour market of today and tomorrow.
This issue of Studies also pays tribute to Fr Ronan Drury, editor of The Furrow from 1977 – 2917.
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Women’s Prophetic Voice for the Church
Gráinne Doherty
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleI 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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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe 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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Writing the History of Women Religious Today: Possibilities and Problems
Deirdre Raftery
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Young People and the Future of the Irish Church
Breda O’Brien
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe World Meeting of Families in August 2018 was a great boost for those who attended the event in the RDS. From the beginning, it was virtually ignored by mainstream media, and while the organisers and attendees valiantly tweeted and posted, it could not overcome the absence of mainstream coverage. Therefore, it had little wider impact beyond the people who attended.
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‘I Must Be Buried at Straide’: Michael Davitt’s Final Request
John Dunleavy
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleMichael Davitt made his will in 1904, some two years before his death. He had clear views as to where he should be buried…
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‘Marking the Card’ of an Overseas Candidate for Garda Commissioner
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleWilliam Kingston
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‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (II)*
Brendan Walsh
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe impact of free education
What the experience of working with the religious was like for their lay colleagues between the 1940s and the late 1970s largely depends upon time and place. -
‘Stand Upright and Raise Your Head!’: Doing Theology in Dangerous Times
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleMichael Kirwan SJ and Jessica Hazrati
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