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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
This is a selection of writings from the author's fortnightly Irish Times column Thinking Anew over a ten-year period. They are written in everyday language for everyday people and take the reader behind the language and formalities of institutional
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Today's parish is entering a time of both challenge and opportunity. Churchgoers and priests are growing older and fewer, and the Church itself has lost much of its credibility. It needs a new vision, one which will imbue the parish with a revitalised energy and hope. Pope Francis is offering us a new direction as a missionary church and the challenge now is not about how we can restructure cur parishes, but no we can restructure our minds. It is about thinking of thriving, not surviving. This revised edition of Tomorrow's Parish sets out the priorities for the parish as the Church enters a new phase, particularly highlighting the role of the family with the celebration of the World Meeting of Families in Ireland. This book is for anyone who has an interest in the future of the Church. It will be of particular importance to those involved in parish ministry and parish pastoral councils, offering a fundamental resource for their formation and organisation in a new context. Book jacket.
Thomas Wentworth landed in Ireland in 1633 - almost 100 years after Henry VIII had begun his break with Rome. The majority of the people were still Catholic. William Laud had just been elevated to Canterbury. A Yorkshire cleric, John Bramhall, followed the new viceroy and became, in less than one year, Bishop of Derry. This 2007 study, which is centred on Bramhall, examines how these three men embarked on a policy for the established Church which represented not only a break with a century of reforming tradition but which also sought to make the tiny Irish Church a model for the other Stuart kingdoms. Dr McCafferty shows how accompanying canonical changes were explicitly implemented for notice and eventual adoption in England and Scotland. However within eight years the experiment was blown apart and reconstruction denounced as subversive. Wentworth, Laud and Bramhall faced consequent disgrace, trial, death or exile.
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This text examines the efforts of the Tudor regime to implement the English Reformation in Ireland during the sixteenth century.
Contains 16 commissioned essays charting the development of the diocese of Dublin from its foundation to modern times. Chapters cover the historiography of the Dublin diocese, the Reformation in Dublin, the Catholic response, the impact of the penal laws, the careers of a number of Dublin's archbish