Leaving Certificate Religious Education Ireland

Here is a selection of articles from our archive sorted by Leaving Certificate Religious Education units for Ireland:

Unit One

The search for meaning and values

• The quest for meaning
• The response to the quest
• Concepts of God
• Religion and the emergence of values

Unit Two

Christianity: origins and contemporary expressions

• The return to origins
• The vision of Jesus in context
• The message in conflict
• The formation of Christian community
• The Christian message today

World Religions

• The phenomenon of religion
• A closer look at the major living traditions
• Other living religions

Moral decision making

• Thinking about morality
• Morality and religion
• Moral principles and theories
• Moral development

Unit Three

Religion and gender

• Gender, society and religion
• Gender and Christianity
• Women's Stories

Issues of justice and peace

• Reflecting on context
• The concept of justice and peace
• The religious imperative to act for justice and peace

Worship, prayer and ritual

• Symbol, ritual and Sacrament
• Prayer
• Meditation and contemplation

The Bible: literature and sacred text

Religion: the Irish Experience

• Patterns of Change
• Pre-Christian Ireland
• Christianity in Ireland

Religion and science

• The scientific and theological enterprises
• The relationship between religion and science
• Current issues for religion and science: origins
• Life and death

Unit One

• The search for meaning and values

The quest for meaning

• A tale of two missions
• The challenge of heaven
• Where was God on 11 September?

The response to the quest

• Myra: the paper Devil
• Show atheists the Trinity
• How Pentecost changed my life

Concepts of God

• The storm of the Spirit
• My life with Christ
• The challenge of heaven

Religion and the emergence of values

• Why convert the saved?
• Break the chains and pray together
• No new dogmas please

Unit Two

• Christianity: origins and contemporary expressions

The return to origins

• So why did it happen?
• Brazil's moral giant
• The hand of Opus Dei in El Salvador
• The counter-revolution
• Selection of articles on Vatican II

The vision of Jesus in context

• My life with Christ
• Did Christ laugh?
• How Pentecost changed my life
• Sharing the Christ child
  

The message in conflict

• How the Resurrection makes sense
• Pilate: a search for truth
• The Bible after the Shoah

The formation of Christian Community

• In search of a Mass
• The Celtic cross and the crescent
• Fired by the Spirit
• Signpost to home
• Speak up for God’s sake
• At the Spirit café

The Christian message today

• Lessons by the pub fire
• Everyone needs good neighbours
• The pull of God in a godless age
• A Pope for all Christians
• A common tongue
• Should Christians still seek to convert Jews?
• A Vision of Christian Unity for the Next Generation

• World Religions

The phenomenon of religion

• It won't wash with women
• Green shoots in Ireland
• The Celtic cross and the crescent
• Green shoots under the dead wood
• My island purgatory
• Faith of our children
• Europe of the heart
• Cardinal for a new Europe
• What I saw in Assisi
• The storm of the Spirit

A closer look at the major living traditions

• Judaism
• Judaism for the beginner
• Christians and Jews: redeeming the past
• Jews revisit Jesus
• A dialogue of head and heart
• Christianity
• ‘The whole truth is only found together’
• Break the chains and pray together
• No new dogmas please
• Why convert the saved?
• Islam
• Islam’s turbulent critic
• The Islamic bogeyman
• Inside the mind of militant Islam
• Buddhism
• Under the Bodhi tree
• Torture in Tibet
• Light from the Buddha
• Under the Chinese heel
• Hinduism
• Gandhi: behind the icon - No plaster saint
• An explosion of hatred in Asia
• The priest and the swami
• Gujarat’s front line

New religious movements and Other living religions

• The Prince in private
• No new dogmas please
• Ring out the bells
• Breaking the mould

• Moral decision making

Thinking about morality

• Evil in the virtual Eden
• Kissing cousins
• The virus of exploitation
• Sex abuse, power abuse

Morality and religion

• Standing up to be counted
• Showdown for the Democrats
• Choose life, not death



Moral principles and theories

• Opening the ‘gates of hell’
• America's New Model Army
• Humility
• The science battleground
• Understanding goodness in a culture of relative values (Book Review)
• Kissing cousins



Moral development

• Iraq: the moral case for war
• In their own image
• Whose life is it anyway?
• The truth about condoms
• People First PLC
• From pinstripes to prison stripes
• A matter of life and death
• Betrayal of innocence
• Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention - book review

Unit Three

• Religion and Gender

Gender, society and religion

• We are more than our genes
• I was a Greenham woman
• True and false Madonnas
• Love that speaks its name
• Why I voted 'no'
• Light from the Buddha

Gender and Christianity

• Feminism, Vatican-style
• Gianna’s choice
• Islam’s turbulent critic
• Liberating Mary

Women's Stories

• A priest called Ludmila
• Mary as Everywoman
• We are more than our genes
• Cosmo hits Moscow
• Gianna’s choice

• Issues of justice and peace

Reflecting on context

• The IRA turns the page
• The West, the world and the war on terror
• Will the Land of the Free defend freedom?
• What Muslim leaders can do for the world
• Can the West and Islam live together?
• Auschwitz: the perversion of humanity

The concept of justice and peace

• A test of wisdom for President Bush
• Triangles of courage
• Crimes against humanity: closing the net
• Escape from crime

The religious imperative to act for justice and peace

• It’s too soon for war
• A violent end to a violent chapter
• Crimes against humanity & Cardinal Cormac's call to the nation
• What is original sin?

• Worship, prayer and ritual

Symbol, ritual and Sacrament

• A very modern kind of pain
• The flame of faith
• The new penitents
• Culture and the Cross
• Fasting – our lost rite
• Europe of the heart

Prayer

• A pen led by prayer
• ‘The Rolls-Royce of Masses’
• Show atheists the Trinity
• Blind man's vision

Meditation and contemplation

• The whispering desert
• My day in Avalon
• Life without a mask
• Meditating with Jesus
• The Shroud experience

• The Bible: literature and sacred text
  
  
  • Millennial madness
  • The Bible after the Shoah
  • Which way to read the Bible?
  • Did Christ laugh?
  • How Pentecost changed my life
  • If God Spare My Life: William Tyndale, the English Bible and Sir Thomas More – a story of martyrdom and betrayal - book review

• Religion: the Irish Experience

Patterns of Change

• The real Michael Collins
• Reasons to believe
• The Celtic cross and the crescent
• Green shoots under the dead wood
• Faith of our children

Pre-Christian Ireland

• Swap duty for delight

Christianity in Ireland

• Green shoots in Ireland
• My island purgatory
• It won't wash with women
  
  

More articles on Ireland

• Religion and science

The scientific and theological enterprises

• How the Resurrection makes sense
• The Lazarus light
• Patents, profits and genes
• The science battleground
• In defence of just being
• Deicide in north Oxford

The relationship between religion and science

• Has science a conscience?
• The universe - a divine recipe?
• We don't have to clone
• Darwin: friend not foe
• God and the Big Bang

Current issues for religion and science: origins

• Thérèse versus the atheists
• Time to treat Aids in Africa
• In their own image
• Whose life is it anyway?
• The truth about condoms

Life and death

• Abortion? No thanks
• The daughter I lost and found
• Together in the darkness
• Fighting Aids in Africa
• Lives worth remembering

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