Media personnel discuss the ‘challenges and opportunities’ for Catholic journalists in Ireland.

Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy one of the first issues considered by Vatican II.

Former CDF Prefect gives catechesis address in Maynooth.

Catholic education must reach out to those with unmet educational needs.

Forty years since the first Charismatic prayer group gathered in Dublin.

Church must look critically at both the novus ordo form of the Mass and the extraordinary form.

Watch a full recording and read full text of the homily by Fr Brendan Leahy in Carlow Cathedral on 11th October 2012.

Jim Corkery SJ, Suzanne Mulligan and Gerry O'Hanlon SJ look at the positive insights and challenges that came from the Council.

Bishop Michael Smith, joined by Dr Patrick Geoghegan and Dr Padraic Conway, reflects on his time working at the Second Vatican Council.

This is a collection of the occasional writings of Liverpool priest Father Kevin Kelly who has been discerning and clarifying the call of God's Spirit in people's lives over the last fifty years.

This excellent book deals with the evolution of church buildings in Ireland by examining the best known churches built between the 1960s and 1990s.

Mark Patrick Hederman provides a thoughtful and readable account of the history of dialogue in the Catholic Church since the pontificate of John XXIII.

This collection of papers edited by Dermot Lane and Brendan Leahy reflects on the 40th Anniversary of Vatican II. It contains some of its content, historical and theological perspectives and how it can be applied it to the twenty-first century especially to religious education.

Pope John XXIII was fully conscious of the implications of his opening speech at the Second Vatican Council. He managed to outwit the prophets of doom and asked for a great leap forward in the Church. The substance of the faith, he said, is not the same as its historical [...]