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Facing One Another: Communion, Conscience, and the Call to Mercy

The May 2026 issue of the Church of Ireland Gazette placed before its readers, on facing pages, two matters which speak rather pointedly to...

Reflections from the Outgoing Chair of the RB Executive Committee

At the invitation of the Archbishop of Armagh, The Most Reverend John McDowell, the outgoing chair of the Representative Body (RB) Executive Committee, Hilary...

The Decline of Sunday Service as a Pattern of Worship in Irish Society

‘His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me”.’  (John 2:17) As a young boy growing up in the Roman...

Wherever I Lay My Hat? That’s My Home

Now, I know this might sound a bit flash, but back in the day I owned two houses in France (one house might be...

An All-Male House of Bishops Would Fail Today’s Church of Ireland

The retirement of The Most Reverend Pat Storey at the end of July, alongside the forthcoming episcopal elections for Cork, Cloyne and Ross and...

A Nation Counted: What the 1926 Census Reveals of Ireland’s Changing Soul

On the morning of 19th April, the 1926 Irish Census was made available online. I cannot be the only reader of the Gazette who...

A Step Too Far? Clergy Tenure Plans Raise Serious Questions

Every May, the Church of Ireland packs up its troubles in its old kit bag and heads off to meet at the General Synod....

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M y current wife says that I need to see my psychiatrist (again) about my ability to bury myself in my phone and engage my...

Speaking with a Foreign Accent: Recovering Moral Courage, True Leadership, and the Language of the Gospel

It was Pilita Clark who observed in her article ‘Good News for CEOs with Foreign Accents’ (for the Financial Times) that voices marked by...

The Urgent Need to Bring an Authentically Christian Perspective to the Ongoing Debate about the ‘Right to Die’ and Euthanasia 

The recent death by euthanasia of Noelia Castillo Ramos — a 25-year-old Spanish woman who requested euthanasia as a consequence of being left paralysed...

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