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Another Beginning?
Brendan Hoban
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The thrust of this article is three-fold. One, ongoing change is now a permanent reality for the Catholic Church. A first step is to accept this reality. Two, dealing with change means ‘living in the grey’, that’s accepting and embracing difficult questions that have no ready-made ‘black and white’ answers.
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Anthropology and the Possibility of Hope
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Dermot A Lane
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Are You Serious? Facing the Challenges
Bobby McDonagh
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Like many others who attended Gonzaga College, one of my great privileges was to know and to be taught by Fr Joe Veale SJ.
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Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia and the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020
Noreen O’Carroll
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Dáil Éireann is currently debating the Dying with Dignity Bill 20202. Everyone would like to die with dignity. Debating this would therefore appear to be an uncontroversial thing to do. But the bill is of particular concern, because it proposes radical legislative, medical and social change in Ireland by making provision for assisted suicide and euthanasia.
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Autumn 2020: Transformations
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Behold a Pale Horse- Horrors and Heritages of Famine
Cormac Ó Gráda
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In late January 1849, a woman in her sixties was bludgeoned to death in her own home in Rooskagh, not far from Athlone in the Irish midlands. Margaret Kelly, née Doran, was by all accounts an unpleasant woman.
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Brexit and Europe: a Political and Spiritual Challenge
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Sébastien Maillard
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Brian Lenihan (1959-2011): A Note
Finola Kennedy
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It is just over ten years since the then Irish Minister of Finance, Brian Lenihan Jnr, died on 10 June 2011, at the early age of fifty-two. He belonged to a gifted, politically engaged family.
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Building the Archive of Stigmatic Women Religious
Kristof Smeyers
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Kristof Smeyers
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Calvinists and Lutherans: Contesting the European Reformation
Graeme Murdock
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Calvinists and Lutherans: Contesting the European Reformation
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Careful Thought Needed on Border Polls
John Bruton
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The history of Northern Ireland since 1920 demonstrates the danger of attempting to impose, by a simple majority, a constitutional settlement and an identity on a minority, who feel they have been overruled. Those pressing for an early border poll on Irish unity, which would have to take place in both parts of Ireland, should reflect on this. Such a poll could repeat the error of 1920 and add to divisions, rather than diminish them.