Author: Maria Power

Dr Maria Power is a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford where she is the Director of the Human Dignity Project at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice. Her research focuses on the means through which Catholic social teaching can be used to overcome structural violence; and methods of peacebuilding and reconciliation in post-conflict situations. She is the author of Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace: Cardinal Cahal Daly and the Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom, (Routledge: 2020), and From Ecumenism to Community Relations: Inter-Church Relations in Northern Ireland 1980-2005, (Irish Academic Press, 2007). In 2011, she edited Building Peace in Northern Ireland, (Liverpool University Press), and a collection of essays on Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts edited with Helen Paynter will be published by Palgrave in 2022. Maria is also the book reviews editor of the Journal for the Study of Bible and Violence, and a Fellow of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society.

Catholic Social Teaching in Context – The Conflict in Northern Ireland

Catholic Social Teaching in Context - The Conflict in Northern Ireland

In this post, Maria Power of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, University of Oxford, looks at the conflict in Northern Ireland through the lens of Catholic social teaching, drawing on the important research in her new book Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace: Cardinal Cahal Daly and the Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom, available from Routledge.

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