A series of ten articles focusing on key aspects of the current (2004) crisis of Irish Catholicism.  All are copyright of the Irish Redemptorist publication Reality.

(i)    Crisis

Ten critical problems in the Irish Church.

(ii)   Clericalism

Priests who need unquestioning deference from lay people are out of time.  

(iii)  A Portable Faith

The need to prioritise the truths of the faith - especially the requirement of love.  

(iv)   Jesus the Layperson

The need to prioritise the role of those who live in the world, without whose witness God's kingdom can never come.  

(v)    Snobbery and the Gospels

Jesus' assault on 'worldliness' was essentially an attack on snobberies of all kinds.  

(vi)   The World and the Kingdom of God

Jesus' ideal 'kingdom' is entirely compatible with a modern, truly egalitarian, society.  

(vii)  The Power of Prayer

Why prayer is necessary for the building of the kingdom.

(viii) Division in the Church

Why the differences between e.g. 'progressives' and 'conservatives' must not prevent them from loving one another.

(ix)   Catholicism and Sexuality

Why the church's central teachings on sexuality are winning the argument, while clericalism is losing it.

(x)    The Emerging Church

Already the church of the future is beginning to emerge through pioneering witness.

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