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John Redmond and the First World War
Ronan McGreevy
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Ronan McGreevy writes about John Redmond, whose commitment to Irish participation in the First World War destroyed him and his party.
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Joseph Ratzinger on the Foundations of Moral Theology
D Vincent Twomey SVD
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For Joseph Ratzinger, the future Benedict XVI, now Pope Emeritus, Christianity cannot – in the tradition of Kant – be reduced to ethics.1
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Julien Green (1900–1998)- Exploring the Intersection of Religion and Literature
Eamon Maher
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The extent and quality of Julien Green’s work has earned for him a place in the pantheon of French, and, indeed, world letters. Born in Paris at the very start of the twentieth century to American parents, Green never felt completely at home in France or in the American South, where he went to pursue a university education.
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Just Work? Catholic & Feminist Perspectives on Labour and Livelihood
Christine Firer Hinze
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This brief essay is premised on two convictions. The first is that modern
Catholic Social Teaching and thought, though it has many limits, provides
a contemporary, Gospel- and tradition-based understanding of human
flourishing, a specific orientation toward people and institutions, and a
set of moral principles or base-points.
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Justice, Dignity, and Reward: Nurturing Relationships in the Gig Economy
Calum Samuelson
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The Bible has a great deal to say about workers and work, but, due to considerable cultural and economic differences, it can be difficult to apply biblical wisdom to the complex landscape of modern work.
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Latecomers to Reform? Catholic Activism in the Wake of the French Wars of Religion
Alison Forrestal
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Latecomers to Reform? Catholic Activism in the Wake of the French Wars of Religion
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Limited Liability: Ireland’s Global Legacy
William Kingston
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Limited liability allows sharing in ownership of a business without any responsibility for debts which that business may incur. The most that the investor can lose if it fails is the amount that the share in it has cost. Although the modern corporation depends absolutely upon it for its existence, this legal privilege is taken for granted, like the expectation that the sun will rise to-morrow.
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Living Lightly on Our Planet: Challenges for Ireland
Peadar Kirby
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At the time of writing this article in the autumn of 2022, a slew of authoritative reports and studies underline the extremely precarious nature of the current situation facing humanity and the other species with which we share this beautiful planet. To take a few examples:
• The UN Emissions Gap Report showed that updated national emission-reduction pledges since the Glasgow climate summit in late 2021 make a negligible difference to predicted 2030 emissions and that we are far from the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015.
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Looking Out onto the World: The Global Compact on Education
Brendan Leahy
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The Global Compact on Education is one of the many inspiring initiatives launched by Pope Francis. Put simply, it’s an invitation on his part for any two or more – individuals, families, schools, institutions, organisations, or nations – to commit themselves to work for a more open and inclusive education, in order to respond to the challenges of a world in rapid transformation and increasing divisions. The Compact is not a particular educational activity or programme but rather a networking of people who, respecting diversity, reach out to listen attentively to one another in order to dialogue constructively on education in its broadest sense and in its significance for the future of our world, our planet, our relationships.
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Making Sense of Britain’s Strange ‘Brexit’ Parliament
William Kingston
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English parliaments have been known by many names, including ‘Reformation,’ ‘Cavalier,’ Long’ and ‘Rump.’ The one which has just been dissolved will surely have the title ‘Brexit’, because it was so dominated by the issue of leaving the European Union.
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Maria Edgeworth: Distinguishing the Irish Anglican Ascendancy from the English
David Clare
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In his 1922 novel Ulysses, James Joyce included a fictionalised depiction of the time he spent living in a Martello Tower in Sandycove, County Dublin, but he turned his real-life roommate –Samuel Chenevix Trench, a member of the Irish Anglican Ascendancy – into the Stage English character Haines. In 1983, when UTV, RTÉ, and Channel Four co-operated in creating the Irish R.M. television series, based on short stories by Edith Somerville and Martin Ross, they elected to cast the English actor Peter Bowles as Major Yeates and to change the Major from an upper middle class Irish Anglican to an Englishman.
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Martin Luther and the Reformation in Historical Thought, 1517-2017
Scott Dixon
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Martin Luther and the Reformation in Historical Thought, 1517-2017