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Grief at Christmas
December 23, 2024
Brendan McManus SJ and Jim Deeds :: Ten tips for dealing with grief at Christmas, a time of doubly poignant loss that heightens the sense of being adrift.
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Breathing new life into ecumenism
December 12, 2024
2025 is the 1700th anniversary of the first Council of Nicaea. The year could prove to be a pivotal one for Christian Unity. A lot done, and a lot more...
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Travellers and the Irish State
November 27, 2024
STUDIES :: Bryan Fanning (in autumn 2015) notes the irony in Irish images of Travellers echoing the 19th century racist caricatures of the Irish themselves.
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What lies beneath
November 27, 2024
BILL TONER SJ :: A new book claims that none of Hitler's close associates could be described as natural thugs.
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The Rise of the Far Right
November 14, 2024
STUDIES :: Extract from a recent Studies article on the rise of the far-right in the US, Europe and elsewhere.
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Trump and the everyday citizen
November 11, 2024
EDMOND GRACE :: Much of the commentary on the election of Donald Trump overlooks one very simple and obvious reality.
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The rise of fascism in 1920s Italy
October 31, 2024
STUDIES archive :: English Catholic suffragist, journalist and author Virginia Crawford observes the rise of Mussolini in the early 1920s.
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The beauty of having your bag stolen
October 29, 2024
BRENDAN McMANUS SJ :: Having your bag and passport stolen seems like a disaster, but it can be an opportunity or a gift.
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By luck or by love?
October 24, 2024
BILL TONER SJ :: We are much more special than atheistic scientists would have us believe.
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‘The housing problem in Dublin’: Plus ça change
October 16, 2024
STUDIES :: The criticism of the housing situation in Dublin published in Studies in 1919 has resounding echoes in the Ireland of today.
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