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It is a dangerous time to hope. Post-war democratic consensus seems to be threatened. There appears to be a sea-change in Irish culture. It is in this context that the Jesuit publication Studies titled its Summer 2018 edition 'Doing theology in dangerous times'. We are delighted that two papers delivered in the Loyola Institute Lecture series are included. Sebastien Maillard of the Jacques Delors Institute addressed the issue of 'Brexit and Spirituality' while Associate Adjunct Professor Michael Kirwan S.J. paper addressed this very issue of doing theology in dangerous time. This issue of Studies can be bought for 10 euro.

Loyola students and staff have had a busy time with lots going on during the last few months. Read our Spring Newsletter to get a flavour of our activities.

Dr Fainche Ryan will address the Conference of European University Chaplains (CEUC) when they meet in Trinity College on June 7th, 2018. The title of the conference is 'Our Ancient Future'. Dr Ryan's presentation is entitled The Eucharist: Our Ancient Future and will focus on eucharistic imagery in the Book of Kells. Afterwards the conference participants will visit the Book of Kells.

In her opening words Prof Shane Alwright, Chair of the forum entitled 'Living Humanely', commented that debates and discussions around contentious issues are too often driven by ideology, fuelled by emotion, generating a great deal of heat but very little light. Todays forum is about generating light, not heat.' And it did. Five excellent papers were presented. By the end of the day everyone felt enabled to make a wiser, more informed decision on the 25th May. If you didn't get a chance to attend, three of the papers are published in this month's Doctrine and Life. This issue is available for purchase on the DP website (click here). These papers make for excellent reading.