I’m Not Religious, I’m Spiritual
A team of preachers visiting Ireland said, ‘The Irish have faith; but it is anti-intellectual, formalistic, and passive.’ There is nothing as dead – or as deadly – as dead religion.
Mantastic! – Men’s Rites of Passage
Seventy three men seeking this spirituality gathered at Slí an Chroí, in Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow, in June 2009, for a five-day Men’s Rites of Passage. They were young, old and in between, urban and rural, married and single, and from many walks of life.
Symbolism – A Review
I got off to a happy start with “Symbolism: the glory of escutcheoned doors”.
Saved by the Laity
A review of Catholicism at the Crossroads: How the Laity can save the Church, Paul Lakeland, Continuum, New York, 2007.
Is Ireland Heading for Islam?
At the moment, the church in Ireland is drifting rudderless through a storm which has yet to run its course. The present model of the church is collapsing, and must collapse, before there can be a basis for a revival of Catholic faith. The longer the church clings on grimly, deluding itself on many fronts, the larger the opportunity it creates for Islam to offer Irish people an alternative to the present drift.
Listening to the Body
Theology is not all “handed-down” from the “top” but is also a movement up from “below”. It moves from the general to the particular and from the particular to the general. God not only draws us from the past, he leads us into the future.
Where Three Streams Meet: Celtic Spirituality – A Review
A review of “Where Three Streams Meet: Celtic Spirituality”, by Seán Ó Dúinn OSB, The Columba Press, Dublin, 2000.
Centenary of the Church in Zambia
Written in 1991 on the occasion of the Centenary.
Can Religions Unite?
When we look at some of the problems facing the world, we can see how they call for united human action to face them.
The Mystique of The Reek
A visit to Ireland’s Croagh Patrick