Gerry O’Hanlon SJ

The quiet revolution

February 8, 2017

GERRY O'HANLON SJ: : Are we in Ireland ready to take up the challenge of a more collegial, synodal church as Pope Francis urges us to do?

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Responding to Irish Church crisis

January 20, 2017

Vatican newspaper 'La Civiltà Cattolica' has published an article by Irish Jesuit theologian Gerry O'Hanlon on the need for reform of the Church in Ireland

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Trump – from dismay to discernment

November 9, 2016

Theologian Gerry O'Hanlon SJ was at first dismayed at the election of Donald Trump. His second response was to discern what it might really mean.

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Amoris Laetitia – “Everything is not black or white”

April 13, 2016

GERRY O'HANLON SJ :: 'Amoris Laetitia' is a long, sometimes eloquent and lyrical, account of Christian marriage through the lens of theology, spirituality, psychology and plain common sense.

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A listening Church and an empowered laity

June 3, 2015

Gerry O'Hanlon SJ has twice written publicly on the subject of the marriage equality referendum on 22 May. In both he argues strenuously for the Catholic Church in Ireland to...

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The Irish Referendum – discerning the spirits

May 28, 2015

GERRY O'HANLON SJ :: The 'yes' side in the recent marriage referendum won a decisive victory. The Church, as Archbishop Martin has acknowledged, needs a reality check. But what shape...

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Gerry O’Hanlon SJ

January 15, 2015

Gerry O’Hanlon (b 1947) entered the Jesuits in 1965, having been to school in Belvedere College. His studies were mainly at home in Dublin, but included an MA in Classics...

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Gerry O’Hanlon SJ reflects on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI

December 5, 2014

Irish Jesuits · Gerry O’Hanlon SJ reflects on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI Jesuit theologian Gerry O’Hanlon discusses the opportunities for Church reform in the light of Pope Benedict...

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Gerry O’Hanlon SJ reflects on his book ‘A new vision for the Catholic Church- A View from Ireland’

December 5, 2014

Irish Jesuits · Gerry O’Hanlon SJ reflects on his book ‘A new vision for the Catholic Church- A View from Ireland’ Irish theologian Gerry O’Hanlon SJ reflects with Pat Coyle...

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Reaping the harvest

June 12, 2012

Fifty Years after Vatican II Suzanne Mulligan (ed.), Jim Corkery SJ, Gerry O'Hanlon SJ Publisher: Columba Press When Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council on 11 October 1962,...

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