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Walking a journey with God
July 14, 2025
Brendan McManus SJ :: reflections on three weeks in the Pilgrim Office in Santiago, the FCJ Camino Companions ministry.
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The great deception
July 4, 2025
Brendan McManus SJ : : There is something strange happening in the main square of Santiago de Compostela.
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Pope Francis’s legacy
June 17, 2025
DERMOT ROANTREE :: Pope Francis will be remembered for insisting that mercy – both human and divine – changes everything.
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Accepting limits: Obeying the body
June 4, 2025
Brendan McManus SJ :: Accepting limits – obeying the body in recuperation from surgery.
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A retrospective on Rerum Novarum
May 21, 2025
STUDIES ARCHIVES :: A look back from 1931 to the great social encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, 'On New Things'.
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Priests on the Margins
May 8, 2025
BILL TONER SJ :: With the sharp decline in vocations, it is likely that the resident island priest is a vanishing species.
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Laudato Si’ and the future of work
May 1, 2025
STUDIES :: On the occasion of the death of Pope Francis, an excerpt from a 2015 article by Martin Maier SJ on Laudato Si'.
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Is it harder being a priest today?
April 9, 2025
BILL TONER SJ :: Being a Catholic priest nowadays is more complicated than when I joined the Jesuits over fifty years ago.
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Judeo-Christian theology and ecological crisis
April 3, 2025
[STUDIES] :: In this 1996 article, Prof. Desmond Gillmor assesses the impact of the concept of ‘ecological dominion’ in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Imagine there’s no heaven
March 19, 2025
BILL TONER SJ :: The charge that religion discourages people from “living for today” must be called into question.
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