by Sean Reilly | Jun 5, 2008
This article further develops some themes hinted at in Hearing hope through the babble. ‘Who sinned, this man or his father, that he has this sickness?’ The religious argument prompted by this misplaced question to Jesus at the beginning of St John chapter nine [1],...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
With all its many complexities, the question at the heart of globalization remains alarmingly simple. Not ‘shall we have it or not?’ – there is now no serious choice about that. But what kind of globalization, determined by whom, and to what ends? Will it continue to...
by Sean Reilly | May 8, 2008
The notion and shape of ‘the land’ means many things to many people, as the contradictory responses to this 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel are showing. For some it looks like triumph, for others it betokens tragedy. To people who...
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...
