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December 2017

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Michael G. Olden Ronan Drury Editor of The Furrow, 1977-2017
Patrick H. Daly The European Union and Generational Transition
Pádraig McCarthy The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Oireachtas Committee on The Eighth Amendment
Jackie Minnock

Voices That Challenge
David Harold-Barry, SJ A Toledo Dungeon Is the Irish Church in a ‘Dark Night’?
Pat Courtney

There is Another Road
Aidan Ryan At the end of an era
Charlie O’Gorman Homilies for January (B)
News and Views
Michael Ringrose The Voice Within
+Eamon Martin Sacred Music
New Books
Joe McDonald To Love and be Loved
Stephen Wilson

Let Advent be Advent
Gerard Fitzgerald Shortish Homilies for 2017/18 Year B: Parts 1 and 2
Willie Reynolds, SJ

The Pilgrim’s Story
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November 2017

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Michael G. Lawler & Todd A. Salzman Pope Francis and His Predecessors – A Remarkable and Unremarked
Continuity
Enda McDonagh Letter to a Friend – Remembering Vincent MacNamara
Bill Cosgrave Understanding Spirituality Today
Liam Bergin Translations Matter – On Pope Francis’s Magnum principium
Barry O’Sullivan Giving People the Confidence to have Difficult Conversations
Michael Duignan The Permanent Diaconate – A Time to Take Stock
Peter Burns Homilies for December (B)
News and Views
Tom Grufferty October 2017 edition of The Furrow
Hugh O’Donnell, SDB The Season of Creation: A Poor Relation?
New Books
Eleanor Cunney Death and the Irish
Kevin O’Gorman, SMA

Essential Writings/Prayer Seeds
Shorter Notice
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October 2017

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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