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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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Partition and the common good
March 19, 2025
DERMOT ROANTREE :: When it comes to contested borders it is essential that the common good be put before 'reasons of state'.
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An Irish Anglican’s response to Vatican II
March 6, 2025
STUDIES :: In this 2012 article, Irish Anglican priest Patrick Comerford discusses the impact of Vatican II on Anglican-Catholic relations.
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My father’s gift of silence
February 28, 2025
GAVIN THOMAS MURPHY :: My Dad comforted me like the way a harbour shelters boats as we went on retreat together in County Cork just the summer before he died.
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Judeo-Christian theology and an ecology in crisis
February 20, 2025
STUDIES ARCHIVE :: The dangers of a wrong understanding of the theological concept of dominion over the earth.
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The search for happiness
February 20, 2025
BILL TONER SJ :: The pursuit of happiness is fraught, and the belief that we should always be happy is misguided.
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The masks we wear
January 15, 2025
BILL TONER SJ :: People adopt different ‘personas’ in different circumstances. What about Jesus's personas?
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Steering away from neoliberalism
January 14, 2025
DERMOT ROANTREE :: Ireland has relied far too heavily on a neoliberal model of growth. It's time to chart a better course.
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