Position Papers – Review of books
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.
Roger Scruton is visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall Oxford and visiting Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He has written over thirty books, several novels and a number of general textbooks on philosophy and culture, and he has composed two operas.
Richard Greene served as a public representative on Dublin County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. He campaigned over many years for innocent people jailed during the Northern Ireland conflict and founded with others the Irish National Congress in the late Eighties in order to encourage the various IRA factions to engage politically with the Northern problem. He is a longtime member of the 1916-1921 Club whose mission is to honour all the men and women who fought for Irish freedom regardless of what side they took in the Civil War.
Rev. Gavan Jennings is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature and is the editor of Position Papers.