Bill Toner SJ
The experience of grace: a reflection
October 21, 2020
BILL TONER SJ :: Notes for an online group reflection on the experience of God's grace, with a little help from Karl Rahner
Read moreEvolution – does God interfere?
August 13, 2020
Bill Toner SJ :: What role, if any, does God play in the evolution of our planet, or is there no room for God in natural selection?
Read moreConspiracy theories and Covid-19
May 21, 2020
BILL TONER SJ :: The pandemic has led to a raft of conspiracy theories, which shows a sense of alienation and powerlessness and a loss of trust in public bodies.
Read moreInfallibility in the Church: blessing or shackle?
April 7, 2020
BILL TONER SJ :: The Church's doctrine of papal infallibility is problematic on a number of fronts, both theological and historical
Read moreRenewing the face of the earth
March 3, 2020
The Jesuits in Britain and Ireland are divesting from companies whose major income is from the extraction of fossil fuels
Read moreReflections on Original Sin
January 9, 2020
BILL TONER SJ :: A note to introduce an article by the late John Moore SJ, Professor of Botany, on scientific problems raised by the doctrine of original sin
Read moreWhat did Jesus teach us about Hell?
December 3, 2019
Bill Toner SJ :: Whatever the reality of Hell, the stress of the New Testament is decidedly on the eternal life of joy awaiting us and the infinite mercy of...
Read moreReflecting on Jesuit times past
November 20, 2019
After reading through the 'Irish Jesuit Annual Letters' published recently, Bill Toner SJ reflects on the shape of Jesuit life in 17th century Ireland
Read moreJohn Guiney SJ – a man of ‘unfailing courtesy’
November 20, 2019
Mourners at his funeral Mass heard that John Guiney SJ was a man of shrewd judgement who is remembered with great fondness
Read more‘Above all I believe in people’
November 20, 2019
Jesuits at home and abroad along with friends and colleagues have been paying tribute to the late Winnie Ryan of Irish Jesuit Missions
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