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Position Papers reviews provide an intelligent analysis of the most culturally relevant books being published. Since its founding in Dublin in 1972, ten issues of Position Papers have been produced annually (only two issues are produced over the four summer months, June to September). The editor is Rev Gavan Jennings, a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei, who studied English and Philosophy in University College Dublin, and Theology and Philosophy in the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.

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Editorial – May 2025

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Hannah Arendt and the “crisis of our time”

Undoubtedly, one of the most important books written in, and left to…
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Posted on: 1 May 2025 Written by: Michael Kirke

Pope Francis on reading literature

Last July, Pope Francis issued a letter to the faithful “On the…
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Posted on: 1 May 2025 Written by: David Gibney

New Atheism appears to have grown old

Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious Ross Douthat Convergent Books September 2024…
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Posted on: 1 May 2025 Written by: James Bradshaw

A novel on eternal themes in the eternal city

The Ghosts of Rome Joseph O’Connor Harvill Secker February 2023 304 pages…
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Posted on: 1 May 2025 Written by: Gerard Scullion

The Catholic Difference: Retrospect on a Pontificate

During the March 2013 interregnum following the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI,…
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