Making Ireland Inclusive
We need to move out of the prison of narrow tribal loyalties and recognize our common humanity.
How Green is Ireland?
Ireland produces eighty million tons of waste a year, but we have one of the lowest levels of re-cycling in Europe.
A Spirituality for the Environment
Our environmental sins are catching up with us.
Argument or Dialogue?
Dialogue is about listening, about trying to find what is true.
All in the One Boat
We may be heading into a situation where there will be only one item on the agenda of the human race.
The Power of the Powerless
In Ireland, we seem remarkably passive in the face of our problems in the North.
Forever Fathers
Forever Fathers is a support group for divorced, separated, and unmarried (non-resident) fathers.
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.
Homosexual Unions: Burying a Landmine in the Garden?
Would it be true to say that where attitudes towards homosexuality are concerned, the real dividing line is not between liberals and conservatives, but between those who do, and those who don’t, have in their family someone who is homosexual?
Where are the Priest-Prophets?
Priesthood is identified in many minds with what is only one aspect of it – the cultic. In the Bible, the prophets were people who “forth-told” the present rather than foretold the future. But the church is seen as a “non-prophet” organization.