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A review of "The End of Irish Catholicism?" by D. Vincent Twomey
(The Furrow, 2003)
This is a book which grew out of a paper presented by Twomey to a seminar organized by the Institute of Irish Studies, Fordham University, in 2001. The topic of that seminar was 'The Irish Catholic Church Today'. This may ...
Lay and ordained ministry
(The Furrow, 2004)
In the centuries immediately before Vatican II, the ordained priesthood was understood to be the exclusive locus of ministry in the Catholic Church. Since the Council, things have changed dra matically, and in some parts ...
A review of "Governance Structures of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy: Becoming One" by Mary Lyons
(The Furrow, 2007)
The history of religious life in the Catholic Church is one of ups and downs, starts and finishes. The ecclesiastical climate of the time of a reli gious congregation's foundation often marks its organisational structure, ...
A review of "God Still Matters" by Herbert McCabe
(The Furrow, 2003)
Pp. 264. Price ?16.99 stg. Herbert McCabe, who died in 2001, was an outstanding English Dominican scholar and preacher. His working career spanned the entire latter half of the twentieth century and he has left a lasting ...
A review of "In the Poorer Quarters" by Aidan Matthews
(The Furrow, 2007)
I remember listening to RTE Radio one Sunday morning sometime last year and hearing a reflection on that day's gospel reading from the lectionary and wishing that I had the text to mull over it again at my leisure. Now ...
A review of "The Church: The People of God" by William Henn
(The Furrow, 2004)
William Henn, a Capuchin, is professor of theology at the Gregorian University, Rome, and known for his work in ecclesiology and ecumenism. This book is not an academic treatise on the Church but is rather aimed at a wider ...
The Congar legacy
(Dominican Publications, 2005)
Millennium meditations on Irish faith and culture
(The Furrow, 2000)