John Courtney Murray SJ
John Courtney Murray
September 10, 2019
John Courtney Murray, author of arguably the most controversial document to arise from Vatican II, Dignitatis Humanae, was vital in articulating the Church’s defence of the right of everyone to...
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Religious Imagination and Public Life
February 27, 2018
Edmond Grace SJ argued in a recent lecture that the exclusion of religious discourse from public life gives free rein to fundamentalism and crass populism.
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Where to for the Irish Church?
March 22, 2017
The lead articles of the Spring 2017 issue of Studies all concur in the judgement that a phase – at least a phase – of Irish Catholicism has ended
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A giant in church-state history
July 6, 2016
John Courtney Murray SJ is a key figure in any discussion about Church and state in modern times. Gerry Whelan SJ spoke about him at the Loyola Institute's international conference...
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November 9, 2026 - The final bundles of documentation central to the canonisation process of Fr Willie Doyle SJ have been delivered to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in Rome.
Climate leadership, not climate hypocrisy
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Christian challenges for the new Common Agricultural Policy
November 3, 2026 - The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice is a member of the 'Our Daily Bread' network, which has published a paper on the new EU Common Agricultural Policy, calling for justice for farmers and a just European food system.
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