The Quiet Revolution of Pope Francis: A Synodal Catholic Church in Ireland?

Religion & Spirituality

O'Hanlon, Gerry

Christian Books & Bibles

Messenger Publications

<p>In this ground-breaking book O'Hanlon offers an Irish theology for a Church in crisis, carefully crafted in the light of his experience of having travelled the length and breadth of Ireland over the last ten years. This is not an armchair theology but one that has been chiselled out of the experience of listening to and learning from others in high and low places, engaging with diverse groups, attending to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, and heeding the prophetic voice of the Bishop of Rome. From the Foreword by Dermot A Lane. draws on decades of reflection, by himself and by others, upon the immense challenges facing the Catholic Church in the post-Second Vatican Council period, in Ireland and beyond. We have lacked neither the vision nor the goodwill to move forward; but the institutional and organisational reforms needed to make the Second Vatican Council an embedded reality have eluded us, until now. Pope Francis, the 'gentle revolutionary', has called for a new, 'synodal' way of being church. 'Synod'means 'the path which we walk together', and it looks like the missing piece of the jigsaw. O'Hanlon's wise, critical but hopeful diagnosis offers the glimpse of a longed for sea-change for the Church. Michael Kirwan SJ. Loyola School of Theology at Trinity College, Dublin.</p>

The Quiet Revolution of Pope Francis: A Synodal Catholic Church in Ireland Revised Edition

This book looks at the current crisis of the Catholic Church in Ireland (post Ferns, Ryan, and Murphy Reports), and worldwide. O'Hanlon discusses how the vision of the Church as the People of God in the Second Vatican Council failed to be implemented. He argues that we need to deepen this vision for today which will allow the full participation of the lay faithful. Jesuit theologian Gerry O'Hanlon is a staff member of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Milltown Institute.

A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland

Columba Books

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