Pastoral Review October-December 2025

EDITORIAL
4 / From the shadows to the light of truth
By Ashley Beck
FOCUS: A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY – ST MARY’S @175
6 / St Mary’s and the challenge to Catholic Higher Education
By Ashley Beck
10 / Countless lives transformed: Celebrating 175 years of St Mary’s
By Professor Anthony McClaran
12 / St Mary’s: A history in four chapels
By Peter Tyler
16 / St Mary’s Hammersmith – the Scottish connection
By Stephen J. McKinney
18 / The idea of a school of medicine at
St Mary’s University
By Philip Booth
23 / Sermon at the 175th anniversary Mass of Thanksgiving at St Mary’s University Twickenham
By Cardinal Vincent Nichols
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING IN PRACTICE
26 / Inter-religious dialogue and the domestic church
By Kirsten Schouwenaars-Harms
31 / Working from home: The new normal?
By Maria Exall
SUPPORTING LEADERSHIP AND MINISTRY
36 / ‘You’ve got two hopes…’ – a linguistic history of Hope, and its place in our Catholic schools
By Simon Uttley
SPIRITUALITY, THE BIBLE AND THE ARTS
55 / City of churches: Sally Rooney’s Dublin
By Michael Duggan
60 / Vatican II and its popes
By Adrian Graffy
66 / Act justly: The Word of God in the world
By Raymond Friel
REVIEWS
71 / Book reviews
BREAKING THE WORD
77 / Sundays
By Maria Power and Raymond Friel
84 / Prayer and Social Justice Calendar
By Raymond Friel
87 / Weekdays
By Fr Paul Keane