Amoris Laetitia
Pope’s ‘people building processes’
August 8, 2022
"Pope Francis is trying to institutionalise the ideas that he has been talking about for the last nine years." So says Gerry Whelan SJ, in an interview with Pat Coyle.
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A gritty look at ‘family’
October 10, 2018
A new book by theologian Gráinne Doherty, based on Pope Francis' 'Joy of Love', pulls no punches, according to Pat Coyle
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Seminar on ‘The Joy of Love’
June 19, 2018
Professors at the Loyola Institute emphasised the need for open-ended dialogue and discernment, conscious always of human frailty and weakness
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‘We need the testimony of lay people’
May 3, 2018
"Lay people are on the front line in the life of the Church", says Pope Francis in the May edition of 'The Pope Video'
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Defending the Pope’s pastoral approach
August 15, 2017
Gerry Whelan SJ, professor of fundamental theology at the Greg in Rome, talks about writing his new book on Pope Francis
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The quiet revolution
February 8, 2017
GERRY O'HANLON SJ: : Are we in Ireland ready to take up the challenge of a more collegial, synodal church as Pope Francis urges us to do?
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Amoris Laetitia – “Everything is not black or white”
April 13, 2016
GERRY O'HANLON SJ :: 'Amoris Laetitia' is a long, sometimes eloquent and lyrical, account of Christian marriage through the lens of theology, spirituality, psychology and plain common sense.
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