fran, Author at The Furrow

October 2017

	Articles
Kieran Waldron	Canon Gerry McGarry Founder-Editor of The Furrow 1950
+Brendan Leahy	Commemorating the Reformation – Five Ecumenical Imperatives
Declan Marmion	From Foe to Friend – Martin Luther’s Legacy
Éamonn Fitzgibbon	Together on the Way – Pope Francis and Synodality
Donal Linehan	From Human to Spiritual – Making the Connections
Dermot A. Lane	A Pastor looks Back and Forward
Thomas O’Loughlin	Facing the Lord’s Table – Sacred Space and our Space
Gearóid Dullea	Homilies for November (A)
	News and Views
Catherine McCann	Bringing under-nourished people back to a more alive faith
	ACP and Liturgical Translations
	New Books
John-Paul Sheridan	Our Merciful God
Kieran Waldron	A History of Balally Parish and the Community
John-Paul Sheridan	Jesus of Nazareth – A Person Like Us?
Aidan Ryan	When you can’t pray
Salvador Ryan	Stepinac: His Life and Times Frank Regan
Moira Bergin	Hymns for all Seasons
Vicky Cosstick	Reflexive Supervisions

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September 2017

	Articles
Tanya Jones	Heart, Hands and Voice – living out Laudato Si’
Michael A. Conway	Faith-life, Church, and Institution
Anne Thurston	Vermeer and the Art of Stillness
Gerard Gallagher	Millennial Matters – Reconnecting the Disconnected
Paul Clayton-Lea	Homilies for October (A)
	Chronicle
Michael Spence	Falling in Love
	Featured Review
Brendan Hoban	The Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism
	New Books
Oliver McQuillan	The Opal and the Pearl
Bridget Jones	Nano Nagle and an Evolving Charism
Billy Swan	Doves in Crimson Fields
Michael Conway	Eva’s Journey
Frank Regan	Shorter Notice
Association of Catholic Priests	Permanent Lay Diaconate

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July/August 2017

	Articles
Hugh Lagan	Listening to Hear
Seán O’Conaill	Faith Formation and Fear of Shame
Brendan Hoban	A Letter to Dominic Meehan and Others
Kevin Mullan	Footprints and Fingermarks
Martin Kelly	Musings of an Ageing Priest
Michael McGrath	Homilies for August (A)
Michael Collins	Homilies for September (A)
	News and Views
Maria Moran	"New Beginnings and Painful Endings"
Maria Moran	"New Beginnings and Painful Endings"
Liam Bergin	Words Matter
	Featured Review
Michael A Conway	Croagh Patrick
Michael A Conway	Croagh Patrick
	New Books
La Flynn	Why Not? – How to bring the liturgy about
Anne Thurston	Shouldering the Lamb
Anne Thurston	Shouldering the Lamb
John B. Morgan	Blessed John Sullivan, SJ
Ronan M. Sheehan	The Church Cannot Remain Silent
Dominic Meehan	The Stations of the Cross/The Cross of Addiction
Chris Quinn	The Living Flame of Love
Bill Tinley	The Other Now/Bloom/Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku/A Tug of Blue
Frank Regan	A Harvey Cox Reader

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June 2017

	Articles
Noel O’Sullivan	I Believe in God – Receiving the Word
Gabriel Daly, OSA	Creation: A Meditation
Kevin Egan / Cora Lambert	Trauma in the Church – Naming the Symptoms
Dominic Meehan	Letter to Brendan Hoban
Eamonn Conway	Why Faith Schools Matter and the Challenges of Divestment
Daniel O’Connell	A Sleight of Hand – Removal of Religious Education from the Primary School Curriculum
Niall Ahern	Homilies for July (A)
	New Books
Thomas O’Connor	The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England
Bill Tinley	Once We Sang like Other Men
Niall Ahern	Maynooth College Chapel
Michael Conway	The Happiness Habit
Michael Conway	A Road to Rome
	Shorter Notices
	Index
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May 2017

	Articles
Gerry O’Hanlon, SJ	Ireland and the Quiet Revolution in the Catholic Church
Michael A. Conway	New Beginnings and Painful Endings
Robyn Reynolds	Bound to be Free! – Vowed religious life
Patrick H. Daly	Pope Francis and The European Union
Ronan Murtagh	The Circular Economy – our ‘green’ bin
Charlie McDonnell	Homilies for June (A)
	News and Views
+ Francis Bestion	The Ordination of Married Men
Pádraig McCarthy	We Drink from One Cup
Ignatius McQuillan	Old Age
	Featured Review
Brian Cosgrove	Keeping the Faith: Poetry and Belief
	New Books
John Cummins	Graced Horizons
Martin Whelan	This Place Speaks to Me
Helena O’Donoghue, RSM	Waiting in Mindful Hope
Kevin O’ Gorman, SMA	Option for the Poor and for the Earth
Cáit O’Dwyer, RSM	Finding a Way Ahead!
Michael Conway	A Road to Rome

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April 2017

	Articles
Mark Patrick Hederman, OSB	‘The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck’ – Reflections on Leadership
Pádraig McCarthy	Mother and Baby Homes
Harry Bohan	Family, Faith and Culture – Hopeful Signs
Hugh O’Donnell, SDB	A Blessing for Charlotte Rose
Hugh MacMahon, SSC	Salvation and the Irish Missionary Experience
Philip McParland	Our Contemporary Culture – Pastoral Challenges
Suzanne Mulligan	Homilies for May (A)
	Chronicle
Paul J. O’Daly	Annual Day for Artists and Architects, 2017
	News and Views
Margaret Hickey	Admission to the Lord’s Table
Donal Dorr, SPS & Albert McDonnell	Lay-led Liturgies in Rural Parishes
Joe McVeigh	Deliver us from Evil

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March 2017

	Articles
Patrick Hannon	To Tell The Truth
Martin Delaney	Postcards From the Edge – Looking beyond a Priest-centred Irish Church
David Harold-Barry, SJ	Shelled Peanuts – a Church in Search of her Soul
Joe McDonald	Do We Dare Preach Jesus?
Séamus O’Connell	Saint Joseph and the Future of the Irish Church
Tony Walsh	Plain and Complex – the Old German Baptist Brethren
Vincent Sherlock	Homilies for April (A)
	News and Views
Kevin T. Kelly	Islam comes to Ireland
Liam Hickey	Rejoicing in Repentance
Catherine McCann	‘I went into the Garden of Love’
	Featured Review
Edward C. Sellner	Thomas Merton and the Celts
	New Books
Liam Bergin	Jesus: an Historical Approximation
John Cullen	What We’re Afraid to Ask
Frank Regan	Biography of the Spirit
Luke Macnamara, OSB	The Spirit of Solesmes
Tony Draper	Gospel Reflections for Sundays A
John Paul Sheridan	Sacred Space

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February 2017

	Articles
Thomas O’Loughlin	We Drink from One Cup
Anne Thurston	Presenting a Child
Brendan Hoban	A Lost Tribe – priests at risk
John B. McCabe	‘An Only Daughter’
Brendan Byrne, SJ	A Future for Religious Life?
Kevin O’Gorman, SMA	Mercy in the Year of Matthew
Tomás Surlis	Homilies for March (A)
	New Books
Diarmuid O’Murchu	Mysticism and Narcissism
Vincent Sherlock	Lough Derg
Kevin O’Gorman SMA	To Know the Love of Christ
Eoin de Bháldraithe	My Chosen Instrument
Aidan Ryan	When You Can’t Pray
	Shorter Notice
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January 2017

	Articles
Andrew McMahon	Beyond Redemption?
Aidan Ryan	Going to Confession
Ned Prendergast	Open Ground – a new landscape
Patrick Masterson	Philosophical Reasonableness of Theism
Edward Sellner	A New Ethic of Holiness – Celtic Saints and their Kinship with Animals
Bill Cosgrave	Catholic Marriage Preparation in Ireland – Church Teaching and Practical Guidance
George Hayes	Homilies for February (A)
	Featured Review
Niall Lynch	Redemption in Irish History
	New Books
Suzanne Mulligan	The Servant and the Ladder
Kevin O’Gorman SMA	The Legacy of Irish Missionaries lives On
Tomás Surlis	Speaking from Within
Anthony Draper	Do we need God to be good?/The Word seen and Touched
	The Editor and Staff of The Furrow wish readers everywhere a very Happy New Year
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Decenber 2016

	Articles
Patrick Hannon	Talking Faith and Morals – Irish Style
Kevin Egan	Let’s Talk About It
Michael Peppard	Starving in the Pews
Todd A. Salzman/Michael G. Lawler	Amoris Laetitia and Catholic Morals
Geraldine O’Dea	The People had Left the Room
Eóin de Bháldraithe, OCSO	The Catholic Church and Irish Violence
Robert Fleck	Homilies for January (A)


	News & Views
Maria Moran	Empty Pews. A Personal Story of One Empty Space
Aidan Carroll/Donal Dorr	Holy Communion – for Whom?
	New Books
Michael G. Olden	The Life of Dr. Thomas Hussey 1746-1803
Margaret Murphy	All the Risings: Ireland 1014-1916
Frank Regan	Globalization, Spirituality and Justice
Elaine Callinan	1916: The Church and the Rising
Seán Maher	Meeting God in Paul
	index
	CHRISTMAS GREETINGS The Editor and Staff of The Furrow wish readers everywhere the blessings of the feast
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