This is the second part of the text of a talk to…
About the Author: Andrew Larkin
Andrew Larkin is a teacher, musician and music critic based in Dublin. He is also a director of Family Enrichment Ireland.
Category: Articles (page 16)
Abortion, autonomy and rights
One often hears those in favour of repealing the 8th Amendment appealing…
About the Author: Fr Kevin E. O’Reilly
Fr Kevin E. O’Reilly, is a member of the Irish Province of the Order of Preachers. He is the author of Aesthetic Perception: A Thomistic Perspective and The Hermeneutics of Knowing and Willing in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. He currently teaches moral theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome.
A Guide to The Eighth Amendment Referendum
1. What is Amendment about? On Friday, May 25 2018 the people…
About the Author: Fr Gavan Jennings
Fr Gavan Jennings is the editor of Position Papers.
I hoped she’d die that night
I’ve never written this before and I’m not sure I’ll hit share…
About the Author: Jennifer Kehoe
Jennifer Kehoe is a mother of six, living in Kildare, Ireland. She runs a blog “Raindrops on my Head,”
at http://jenniferkehoe.blogspot.ie. Her daughter Louise is now 8 years old.
Holy Mary, Mother of God and our Mother
The life of our Lady teaches us, as St Josemaría wrote, that…
About the Author: Bishop Javier Echevarría
This is an extract from Chapter 4 of Paths to God (Scepter) by Bishop Javier Echevarría, the late Prelate of Opus Dei who died in December 2016.
Me? A Catholic?
This is the text of a talk to Sixth Year students on…
About the Author: Andrew Larkin
Andrew Larkin is a teacher, musician and music critic based in Dublin. He is also a director of Family Enrichment Ireland. Next month we will include the second part of this talk where Andrew deals at some length with marriage and also gives an insight on the Sacrament of the Sick.
History’s greatest event
We know directly from Saint Paul that Greek philosophers thought the Resurrection…
About the Author: Rev. George William Rutler
Father Rutler is a priest of the Archdiocese of New York. He has made documentary films in the United States and England, contributes to numerous scholarly and popular journals and has published twenty-one books on theology, history, cultural issues, and the lives of the saints. This article first appeared on “Fr. Rutler’s Weekly Column” and is published here with the kind permission of the author.
Then and now
Last February in the Irish Times, under the heading ‘we have come…
About the Author: Tim O’Sullivan
Tim O’Sullivan has degrees in arts and social policy and taught healthcare policy at third level. He is a regular contributor to Position Papers.
Women in the Catholic Church
Recent comments accusing the Catholic Church of being “a virus of misogyny”…
About the Author: Catherine Kavanagh
Catherine Kavanagh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Mary Immaculate College. She has held the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship in Early Medieval Thought in the School of Classics, UCD and worked at the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, Florence. She has served a term as President of the Irish Philosophical Society. She has held the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities at the School of Classics, UCD.