
Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: St Anne: Apocryphal Maternal Theology and the Forgotten Matriarch
St Anne: Apocryphal Maternal Theology and the Forgotten In this final Advent reflection, I turn now to St Anne, mother of Mary and grandmother of

Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Anna the Prophetess: The Politics of Presence in the Temple
Anna the Prophetess: The Politics of Presence in the Temple (Luke 2:36–38) This reflection is the third in my four-part Advent series, which seeks to

Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Elizabeth: Prophetic Blessing from the Domestic Threshold (Luke 1)
This reflection is the second in my four-part Advent series, which seeks to recover the often-overlooked women at the heart of salvation history. I turn

Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Rethinking Advent through Hidden Matriarchs
This Advent, I begin a four-part reflection series focusing on the often-overlooked figures in the Christmas story. As we light the Advent candles each Sunday,

Food Security and Insecurity: Lessons from medieval Irish towns.
The terms ‘food security’ and ‘food insecurity’ have been in use since the 1970s and were formally defined by the first World Food Summit in

Pope Leo XIV and the Generative Age: Tradition, Technology, and the Next Chapter in the Catholic Social Tradition
Thursday’s election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, American by birth and shaped by his many years of missionary ministry in Peru, as Pope Leo XIV

Dr James Hoctor (University of Kent): ‘From PhD Researcher to Podcaster’
The idea of creating a podcast series was something I had being flirting with during my doctoral studies; however, this was curtailed by the realities

Nicole Burke (TCD): ‘Feminism, neoliberal discourse and the ‘care crisis’ in Ireland’
I fell in love with feminist theory during my time in Carlow College, St. Patrick’s when I took an elective called ‘Feminist Political Theory’ with

Judy Bolger (TCD): ‘A Hopeless Case’: Constructs of Early Twentieth-century Irish Impoverished Motherhood
In July 1907, Dublin mother Catherine Smith was ‘charged with grossly neglecting her four children, one of them an infant’ and she was subsequently sentenced