In the wake of the Cloyne Report, the Irish media have reported several calls to postpone Ireland’s 2012 International Eucharistic Congress. This idea seems first to have been floated in a hard-hitting commentary by Fr Tony Flannery in the 22 July edition of the Irish Times, and later picked up by Fine Gael Senator Cáit [...]
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Will Harassment Silence the Catholic Church? New Post on Religion in Zimbabwe
I have a new post on the Religion and Zimbabwe blog, ‘Fear in the Pulpit: Will Harassment Silence the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe?’ An earlier post I wrote about the documentary, Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children, has also been picked up by the news website Bulawayo24. Next week I’ll be lecturing about religion and reconciliation in Zimbabwe [...]
Evangelical Journeys: Our New Book Available Thursday 7 July
You’ve got to love Amazon.co.uk’s publicity department. I just received one of those ‘you might enjoy …’ emails, trying to get me to buy a book for which I am the co-author! That’s all by way of announcing that my new book, written with Claire Mitchell, will be released in Ireland and the UK on [...]
Healing Through Remembering’s Day of Private Reflection: New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on Healing Through Remembering’s Day of Private Reflection on the Slugger O’Toole blog.
Should Northern Ireland Revisit the Eames-Bradley Report?: New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Should Northern Ireland Revisit the Eames-Bradley Report?’
John Peacock on Training in a Local Theology of Reconciliation – Can Theology Contribute to Peace in Ireland?
Over the last two days, I’ve been engaging with some of the work produced in the Irish Peace Centres’ publication, Studying Faith, Practising Peace. The chapters in this volume are what graduate students in theology in Ireland came up with when asked to address the following question: ‘Do theological studies make a tangible and practical [...]
Does the Middle Ground Have a Future? New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Does the Middle Ground Have a Future? Platform for Change AGM.’
Is the Vatican Listening to the Irish Catholic Church?
Today’s Irish Times carries two stories which exemplify the communications problem that pervades the Catholic Church. One story details a brewing protest against the new Roman missal, to be introduced in parishes in Ireland later this year. About 100 people from the Association of Catholic priests and lay members of Pobal and We Are Church [...]
A New Vision for the Catholic Church: Gerry O’Hanlon Book Review on Slugger O’Toole
I have reviewed a new book by Gerry O’Hanlon, A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland (Columba Press, 2011) on the Slugger O’Toole blog.
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Welcome to Building a Church Without Walls, a website for people who are excited about how Christianity is developing in the 21st Century. I am a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Studies Programme at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast (the Irish School of Ecumenics).
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