by Sean Reilly | Mar 22, 2008
Somewhere in the Middle East, Jesus Christ is strapped to a bench, his head wrapped in clingfilm. He furiously sucks against the plastic. A hole is pierced, but only so that a filthy rag can be stuffed back into his mouth. He is turned upside down and water slowly...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
Today’s world “lives with death and resurrection in many ways and in many places”, says the president of the Methodist Conference in Britain. The duty of the church is to be with them in this and to point to the hope of the gospel. “An...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
The United States and the United Kingdom are being required this month – March 2008 – to reflect on the recent heritage of their military interventions, most notably in Iraq (where the chaos and death seems to have no end) and in the north of Ireland...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
As death continues to do its worst we find ourselves living in a ‘long Saturday’, suspended irresolvably, it seems, between the threat of despair and the possibility of hope. The former looks substantial and unavoidable. But what of the latter? By its nature, hope is...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 14, 2008
In October 2007 a priest was convicted of complicity in 7 murders, 31 cases of torture and 42 kidnappings. Christian Von Wernich had been chaplain to the Buenos Aires police force in the years of Argentina’s military dictatorship from 1976-1983. For his role in...
