Position Papers – Review of books
Rev. Andrew Black is a graduate of Queens University Belfast and is a priest of the Down and Connor diocese. He is currently chaplain to the City Hospital, Belfast.
Jack Valero is co-founder of Catholic Voices and Press Officer for Opus Dei in the UK.
Rev. Charles Connolly is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature. He was editor of Position Papers from its beginning in 1974 until 2011. Before his ordination in 1971 he worked as a journalist for the Daily Mirror. For several years he was curate in the Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Merrion Road, Dublin and is currently chaplain to Gort Ard University Centre in Galway.
Cardinal Sarah serves as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and has recently published a book entitled God or Nothing.
The Rev Patrick G Burke is the Church of Ireland rector of the Castlecomer Union of Parishes, Co Kilkenny. A regular contributor to Position Papers, he was formerly a broadcast journalist with the Armed Forces Radio and Television Network. He blogs at http://thewayoutthere1.blogspot.ie/
Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, S.V.D. holds both a Ph.D. in Theology and is Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Ireland. A formal doctoral student under Joseph Ratzinger, Twomey is the author of several books, including his acclaimed study of the state of Irish Catholicism, The End of Irish Catholicism?
Bishop Robert Barron is an author, speaker, theologian, and founder of Word on Fire, a global media ministry. This article is reprinted with the kind permission of Word on Fire and first appeared on www.wordonfire.org.
Rev. Robert A. Gahl, Jr. is Associate Professor of Ethics in the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.