René Girard died on 4 November 2015. Michael Kirwan SJ, author of Discovering Girard, pays tribute to a deeply committed and humble Catholic theologian who declared that ‘violence is the heart and secret soul of the sacred’. Read >>
René Girard once said that ‘politics can no longer save us.’ What did he mean? In a paper delivered two days after Girard’s death, Michael Kirwan SJ explored Girard’s ‘apocalyptic’ vision of a world in crisis and a planet in danger of becoming a ‘scapegoat’. In such a framework, how does the refugee become ‘the central figure of our political history’? Read >>
Saoirse Ronan excels in this superb and powerful film which forges new channels for us to think honestly about our relationship to the place – or places – we call ‘home’. Read >>
