Death Control: War and Violence
First published in The Open Road, No.2 (March 1969), pp.22-27, and re-published in Éirigh, December 1969.
Editorial – March 1969
It is our responsibility and our opportunity . . . to think frankly, fearlessly and faithfully about the future, the formation of which is very largely in our hands. And to communicate our thoughts to others.
Democracy and Majority Rule
It is an accepted democratic principle that if fifty-one per cent of citizens vote for a particular measure and forty-nine per cent vote against it, the fifty-one per cent deserve to have their way.
The Silent Schism
This book evolved from two articles I wrote for The Furrow – A Candle in the Darkness and The Silent Schism. After their publication I received letters from Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia; from men and women, religious and lay. The Irish Religious Press Association awarded the second article its prize for the best article in 1994.
The Irish Constitution and Religious Liberty
Although the 5th Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland in 1973 removed the special position of the Catholic Church enshrined in Article 44, it did not alter the preamble. This article was written before the 5th Amendment.
Religious Liberty Today
The problem of religious liberty is as old as man himself.
Priestly Celibacy – Law and Liberty
Published in a the first issue of “The Open Road”, a Capuchin student magazine.
Dialogue or Dictation – Dealing with Dissent
An edited extract from my book, The Silent Schism.
Coping with Change
We in the Church have a problem with change, and we are not very good at coping with it. We have a passion for permanence. We change in spasms and convulsions interspersed with long periods of inertia, stone-walling and entrenched resistance to movement.
We need an organic model for change so that we get away from the on-off, stop-go model we have been following.
The Silent Schism
This article was better received than anything I’ve written before or since. I received letters from men and women, religious and lay, from Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. The Irish Religious Press Association awarded the article its prize for the best article in 1994. It was eventually expanded into a book: “The Silent Schism: Renewal of Catholic Spirit and Structures”, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1997.