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Music in The Sacred Fount
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Posted Feb 10, 2022 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Meditations for Advent/Christmas 2021
Nov. 28 Learning from Israel In Advent we step back to the landscape of the Hebrew Bible, to recover our bearings and to understand afresh what it means to have a Messiah. The Hebrew Bible maps a great space of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2022 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KDYM542 Ellen Carol...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KDYM542 Ellen Carol Jones: 'Joysis Crisis compellingly documents how Joyce’s revolution of the word—the “impossible philosophy” of a creativity that is negative and yet also “porous to transcendence”—“wrestles with reality itself,” resulting in truth-telling about the divine and the human.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2021 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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NEW BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KDYM542 Ellen Carol Jones: 'Joysis Crisis compellingly documents how Joyce’s revolution of the word—the “impossible philosophy” of a creativity that is negative and yet also “porous to transcendence”—“wrestles with reality itself,” resulting in truth-telling about the divine and... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2021 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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The Church and Hunger Strikes: For Critical Commemoration of a Dangerous Past
Terence MacSwiney (1879-1920) is no doubt the most iconic and “exemplary” of all hunger strikers, and back in the 1950s and 60s he was certainly an icon for us in the North Monastery, where both he and his murdered predecessor... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2021 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Symbolic Power in Shelley's 'To a Sky-Lark'
Shelley’s ‘To a Sky-Lark’ is one of the best known English poems, about which, one imagines, there is nothing new to be said. Long a staple of anthologies and school textbooks, the poem remains in many memories as a pretty... Continue reading
Posted Feb 8, 2021 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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This was published in Archivio di Filosofia 84 (2016):225-32(Castelli colloquium on the Common Good), and also in Scripture in Church 47, no. 187 (2017):110-21 and Japan Mission Journal 71 (2017):157-66.
Commented Feb 4, 2021 on Luke’s Selfish Soliloquists at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
Luke’s Selfish Soliloquists
Among the four canonical Evangelists, Luke is the one most concerned with economic issues. Whether his reflections amount to a coherent, consistent money ethics, or whether they are a loose set of prophetic admonitions from which no systematic view can be distilled, is disputed. Perhaps the curr...
Luke’s Selfish Soliloquists
Among the four canonical Evangelists, Luke is the one most concerned with economic issues. Whether his reflections amount to a coherent, consistent money ethics, or whether they are a loose set of prophetic admonitions from which no systematic view can... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2021 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Review of Francisco J. Gonzalez, Plato and Heidegger: A Question of Dialogue (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009).
In this masterful and fascinating study, Francisco Gonzalez tracks the ups and downs of Heidegger’s lifelong engagement with Plato and gives an illuminating explanation of the ambivalences and contradictions that dogged it. Gonzalez argues that Heidegger could have had a... Continue reading
Posted Feb 1, 2021 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Hidden in Plain View: The Model of the Princess Casamassima
Christina Light is Henry James’s first major heroine. In both Roderick Hudson (1875) and The Princess Casamassima (1887) her appearance is delayed for dramatic effect. She appears first, very briefly, in the fifth chapter of the earlier novel (RH [Library... Continue reading
Posted Feb 1, 2021 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Comic Entrances, Tragic Exits: Wilde and Socrates
The chain of Fate is forged with strong links. Wilde’s life was shaped with all the rigour of a Greek tragedy, and though he had ample opportunities to elude his doom, he stood his ground, as if obedient to a... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2020 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Reply to Cyril O'Regan
Thanks to Cyril O’Regan for his detailed and perceptive review article on my book Conventional and Ultimate Truth (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) in Modern Theology 35 (2019):382-92. I’ll cite the whole review here and insert replies here and... Continue reading
Posted Dec 10, 2019 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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A Meditation on St Patrick, 17 March 2019
1. Night after night on the cold hillside he watched over the sheep, wakeful while they slept, and among those misty green valleys his thoughts took on a serious cast. Son of a deacon and grandson of a priest, he... Continue reading
Posted Mar 16, 2019 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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A Voice from the Grave: Seán Fagan
[This letter makes uncanny reading in light of the exposure of what lay behind the Vatican regime upheld and reinforced by St John Paul II, basking in the adulation of millions while the clerical and theological caste remained spineless. This... Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2019 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Pushkin in 'The Aspern Papers'
'It is quite difficult to invent a tale; even a new creation will inevitably merge with the stream of tales heard before, and thus become a variant of what has already been around' (Burkert, 70). To see a... Continue reading
Posted Nov 4, 2018 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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A Vexed Question: Catholic Theology Facing Same-Sex Marriag
Things have moved very quickly, taking the Church by surprise. The movement for the recognition of same-sex marriages and civil unions has been astonishingly successful. While the Catholic hierarchy rejects all legal acceptance of same-sex couples, its arguments are unsatisfying,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 23, 2018 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Reality Itself: Philosophical Challenges of Indian Mahayana: Chapter One (draft)
This is an earlier version of the opening chapter in the following book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798750554/ref=nav_timeline_asin?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 Chapter One: Reality Itself as Criterion of Religious Truth Romano Guardini surmised that the Buddha is “the last one whom Christianity will have to confront. What... Continue reading
Posted Aug 14, 2018 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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A Hounded Priest
Thirteen years or so after writing the text below, I just discovered several interviews and talks by Micheál Ledwith, who does not seem to have greatly changed since 50 years ago. The Indian and Egyptian lore is somewhat wacky New... Continue reading
Posted Jul 18, 2018 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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On Henry James, 1
I hope to get around to pursuing this mode of communication -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oBe4Tlemyk Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2018 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Toward a Nagarjunian Commentary on Hegel: Part II: Commentary on the Dialectic of Sense-Certainty
This is an early draft of Chapter 15 of ... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2018 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Toward a Nagarjunian Commentary on Hegel: Part I: Introduction
Christian or Buddhist? “We perhaps do not yet know what Hegel’s dialectical sublation really is, or what negativity is: to learn it one must plunge into one’s heart, and that heart is likely to be, if I dare say so,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2018 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Two Easter Sermons 2018
Doubting Thomas 1. What is the resurrection? Can we believe it? I think these remain nagging questions for most of us, which is why we can identify so easily with “Doubting Thomas.” We have heard of the Resurrection, but we... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2018 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Seduction in Henry James's "Paste"
Some of James’s short stories or ‘tales’ can seem hollow and strained, their characters thinly sketched and their plot stretched to the limits of plausibility, though of course the novella as a genre is expected to be a striking sketch... Continue reading
Posted Nov 14, 2017 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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Yeats on Impermanence
Impermanence is a fundamental theme of English poetry, which easily slips into the elegiac mode. Think of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, of Keats’s Odes, of the Elegies of Milton, Gray, Shelley, Tennyson, Arnold. This was a mode in which Yeats was fully... Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2017 at Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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