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Accused but innocent - what should a priest do?
(The Furrow, 2007)
Many priests in Ireland feel somewhat vulnerable at the moment. They fear that if an accusation of sexual misconduct with minors is made against them, they will be removed from their duties with great publicity, without ...
Help for priests
(The Furrow, 2002)
Over the past five years I have met most of the priests of the West of Ireland , and those in many other dioceses as well, and I have listened to them articulate their needs. Almost without exception they have spoken of ...
An Exodus vision
(The Furrow, 2004)
In an age of informality, proposing a formal toast is not something that one has to do very often. It is a matter of etiquette that needs to be checked out in advance. So, when I checked it out, I discov ered that 'the ...
Presbyteral collegiality: precedents and horizons
(The Catholic University of America Press, 2009)
The fall-out from the child sexual abuse scandals involving clergy has opened up a wide range of significant theological questions for the Roman Catholic Church. Among the many issues that have been raised are: the Church’s ...
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 ...
Of Bishops and Priests
(The Furrow, 2006-06)
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 ...
Episcopal conferences in the context of communion: some notes on the American experience (Pre-published version)
(The Catholic University of America Press, 2004)
In A Report on the Crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States, The National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People made numerous observations about the exercise of the episcopal ministry that ...