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John Littleton
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The Changed Reality of Being a Catholic Priest in Today’s Ireland
John Littleton
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I was ordained a Catholic priest on 8 June 1986. That is nearly forty years ago, indeed probably half my lifetime. Over the decades since then, my personal reflections along with my conversations with family members, colleagues and parishioners have persuaded me that the experience of being a priest in Ireland in 2022 differs greatly from that of the 1980s and earlier times.
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The Chrisitan Meditation Movement: A Critical Perspective
Alexandra Slab
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Lex orandi, lex credendi. The law of prayer determines the law of faith.
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The Contribution of Religious to Irish Healthcare
Tim O’Sullivan
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A recent Studies special, The Nun’s Story: Writing the Record, included a comment by Deirdre Raftery that ‘Irish women religious have left a vast, and largely undocumented, legacy to healthcare and education’.
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The Crisis of Democracy: Practice and Theory
Patrick Riordan SJ
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The Crisis of Democracy: Practice and Theory
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The Dail General Election of August 1923
Anthony White
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The general election to the Fourth Dáil held on 27 August 1923 was significant in several ways. For the first time all Irish women over the age of twenty-one were eligible to vote. Previously only women over thirty could do so. Another important feature of the election was that for the first time since 1800 all geographic constituencies were contested.Perhaps most surprisingly in retrospect partition did not figure as a major issue in the election.
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The Family Today – Healing and Expansion in Christ: An Anglican Perspective
Ginnie Kennerley
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There is something non-negotiable about the family. For better or for worse, our parents are our parents and their parents are our grandparents…
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The Flesh Made Word and the Word Made Place: Thomas McGreevy’s ‘Aodh Ruadh O’Domhnaill’
Thomas O’Grady
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‘Then Mount Jerome for the protestants’, James Joyce has Leopold Bloom muse in the ‘Hades’ episode of Ulysses: ‘Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute.
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The Future of EU Labour Law: Insights from Christian Ethics
Mark Bell
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This article focuses upon the discreet question of what role, if any, there might be for Christian ethics in shaping the future direction of EU labour law.
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The Future of Liberal Democracy
Chris Patten, Lord Patten of Barnes CH, PC
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It is a pleasure and an honour to be invited to give this lecture by Studies, and with the hospitality of the Society of Jesus, in honour of a great Irishman, a great European and a great world statesman, Peter Sutherland.
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The Future of the Catholic Church in Ireland: Synodality and the Wounds of Abuse
Gerry O’Hanlon
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‘Where does thinking get us?’ she said. ‘All thinking does is bring you down… If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore, so you can keep on’ – Eileen in Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
‘Commendable efforts have been made to prevent a recurrence and, in many ways, the social conditions which gave rise to those realities have passed away. However, the reckoning with these truths has yet to happen for the Church as a whole, and for Irish society as a whole’ – Dermot McCarthy
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The Future of Welfare is Ecosocial: Making it Happen
Mary P. Murphy
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This short article addresses the process of creating an ecosocial welfare future and is organised as nine key steps to a future welfare settlement, outlined in the visual of the Spiders Web below, and proceeds by exploring the problem, the solution and the politics of mobilisation for transformation. This version of an ecosocial welfare future is offered not as a concrete solution or definitive answer but to prompt social and institutional imagination and encourage discussion and debate. This article identifies the dual challenge of environmental destruction and inequality, and proposes an ecosocial solution as part of a broader transformative agenda to a post-growth world. It situates a political strategy for making it happen through a deepening and widening of democratic institutions and processes and through coalition-building. The conclusion underscores the urgency of now and the need to be Ready Now.
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The Future of Work after Laudato si’
Martin Maier SJ
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The encyclical Laudato Si’ of Pope Francis is a document that is both dramatic and hopeful. Dramatic because it leaves the reader in no doubt that the prevailing global system, with its reckless exploitation of natural resources and dangerous climate change, is heading for catastrophe.