In his seminal work, Truth and Method, Hans-Goerg Gadamer highlights the misguided supposition of the Enlightenment that such a thing as ‘pure reason’ actually …
Proceedings of the Fourth International Patristic Conference, Maynooth. The editors lecture in theology at NUI Maynooth. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD, is Professor …
Do angels exist? Are they not just a pious fiction invented to please children – like Father Christmas? In this modern era does it make sense to seek the help o…
Teaching philosophy for more than twenty years at Queen's University, Belfast, Cardinal Daly specialised in metaphysics and ethics, with particular attention to…
With an introduction by Terrence O'Reilly. Renowned in his day as a mystic and theologian, Denis the Carthusian (d. 1471), sometimes called 'the last scholasti…
The beatified Irish martyrs are a selection of seventeen of the hundreds of bishops, priests, religious and laity, male and female, who died for their faith in …
Biblical apocalyptic texts that make imminent predictions of the end of the world as we know it, have fascinated Christians from the earliest times. Understanda…
Around 1750 profound changes had begun to take place in the social and economic structures in Irish society because of the extraordinary increase in population …
William King, archbishop of Dublin, was one of the most influential ecclesiastical and political figures of his day – a cleric, theologian and statesman whose s…
This first published collection of homilies by Josemaría Escrivá ranges through the Church’s liturgical year. The teaching which it contains constantly reflects…
These eighteen homilies present a broad picture of the basic human and Christian virtues for all who wish to follow closely in the footsteps of our Lord. They a…
The Forge – like The Way and Furrow – offers the reader points for meditation. They are in the nature of friendly suggestions, of fatherly advice for those who …
