Are Irish Catholic schools really Catholic anymore?

This material was first published by Round Hall Limited in (2009) 12 (2) Irish Journal of Family Law 33 and is reproduced by agreement with the Publishers

‘What are these universities now if not the tombs of God – monuments to the death of Godwithin an academic culture?’

‘. . . The unfolding of a life in acts of freedom, in varying experiences of fragmentation, inrebellion against mortality, and in partial integration through meaning and purpose, point totime as a crucial but ambivalent feature of all human experience’ Professor James McEvoy

The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the extent to which Ricoeur’s theological hermeneutics can justifiably be situated within the tradition of narrative theology.