The sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, both in Ireland and further afield, have led to calls for a re-formation of the church. In Ireland, this has included ideas such as reducing the number of bishops and simplifying church … Read more...
Category: Victims
Fr Brian D’Arcy, A Little Bit of Healing: Book Review
Fr Brian D’Arcy’s latest book, A Little Bit of Healing (Columba, 2010), is a compilation of his Sunday World columns and radio broadcasts. As he explained in an interview on the Late, Late Show some weeks ago, he decided … Read more...
Hope and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: The Role of Faith-Based Organisations by Ronald Wells – Book Review and Launch
Historian Ronald Wells, a well-respected scholar who has devoted much of his career to Northern Ireland, was in Belfast on 30 October 2010 for the launch of his latest book, Hope and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: The Role of … Read more...
Nuala O’Loan Launches New Master’s in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation at TCD at Belfast
Baroness Nuala O’Loan spoke on the importance of studying conflict resolution and reconciliation at yesterday’s launch of my School’s – Trinity College Dublin at Belfast’s (the Irish School of Ecumenics) – new master’s (M.Phil.) programme in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation.… Read more...
Archbishop Harper Says Reconciliation is Church’s ‘Number One Priority’: But can the Churches Lead Reconciliation Process?
The latest Church of Ireland Gazette (22 October 2010) carries a front page story with the headline: ‘Reconciliation Church’s ‘number one priority’ – Archbishop Harper tells Diocesan Synod.’
The article, written by Aonghus Mayes, references Harper’s presidential address to members … Read more...
Tinderbox Theatre’s True North: Raising Questions that Northern Ireland isn’t Ready to Answer?
Belfast’s Tinderbox Theatre concluded its series of three ‘Truth North’ productions this weekend. I attended two of the plays, ‘God’s Country’ and ‘Everything Between Us,’ with students on our master’s programme in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation.
Kathy Clarke’s review of … Read more...
Cohesion, Sharing and Integration: More Responses
On its new blog, the Institute for British Irish Studies at UCD has collected some responses to the Office of the First Minster and Deputy First Minister’s Cohesion, Sharing and Integration document.
IBIS produced a report on the CSI … Read more...
Cohesion, Sharing and Integration: Opinion in the Belfast Telegraph
Click here to read my Opinion piece about the Cohesion, Sharing and Integration document, published in today’s Belfast Telegraph. … Read more...
Gerry O’Hanlon Book Review: Theology in the Irish Public Square
One of the themes of the Pope’s recent visit to the UK was the engagement of the church in the public square. The Pope’s message was that churches – all churches, I suppose, but the Catholic Church in particular – … Read more...
Fr Brian D’Arcy: A Little Bit of Healing in the Irish Catholic Church?
I didn’t watch RTE’s Late, Late Show this week, so the first I heard about Fr Brian D’Arcy’s latest interview on the programme was when people started commenting about it on my blog. On Monday two people referred to … Read more...
Cohesion, Sharing and Integration: Northern Ireland Can Do Better
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, a British charity which has funded human rights, peace and equality work in Northern Ireland since the 1970s, today released a damning response to the OFMDFM’s Cohesion, Sharing and Integration (CSI) document.
CSI is … Read more...