When I was a philosophy lecturer at University College Dublin, our staff Newman group wanted to invite some notable figure or other to give a talk in the millennium year. We knew we’d never get someone like Cardinal Ratzinger. Who else? I knew nothing of then Archbishop George Pell, but I noticed that The Tablet […]
Author Archives: Fr Brendan Purcell
Fr Brendan Purcell is an Assistant Priest at St Mary’s Cathedral. He has held the position since September 2010, and before that he taught philosophy at the University College in Dublin, Ireland.