Education

St. Mary’s Parish promotes the intellectual integrity of Catholicism and the inherent wisdom of the tradition.

One approach to this is through our Education Committee which organises a series of lectures each spring and autumn.

Speakers are carefully selected and have included the following:

• David Quinn
• Professor William Reville
• David Reddaway – British Ambassador
• Dr. Garret Fitzgerald
• Breda O’Brien
• Peter Sutherland SC
• Professor Eamonn Duffy – Cambridge
• Fr. Jerome Murphy-O’Connor – Jerusalem
• Philip McDonagh – Ambassador Holy See
• Dr. Maurice Manning
• Professor Nicholas Lash
• Dr. Una Agnew
• Most Rev. Alan Harper
• Dr. John McDade SS
• In addition we also invite in visiting preachers, also in the spring and autumn. Recent preachers include:
• Fr. Bernard Treacy OP – Editor “Doctrine and Life”
• Abbot Christopher Dillon – Glenstal Abbey
• Bishop Jim Moriarty – Kildare and Leighlin
• Fr. Alban McCoy – Chaplain Cambridge University
• Cardinal Sean Brady
• Fr. Paul Andrews SJ
• Monsignor Tom Stack
• Rev. Dr. Pat Claffey SVD
• Fr. Ben Hegarty OP
• Fr. Michael Collins – Papal Historian
• Bishop Eamonn Walshe – Auxiliary Dublin
• Fr. Dermod McCarthy – RTE
• Professor Ronan Drury – Maynooth College
• Fr. Brendan Coffey – Prior Glenstal Abbey
• Fr. Kieran O’Mahony OSA
• Most Rev. John Fleming – Killala
• Fr. Martin Murnaghan – Kenya
• Bishop Donal Murray – Limerick
• Fr. Pearse Walsh – University (Newman) Church

These events are publicised on our own Web site (www.stmaryshaddingtonroad.ie), in newspapers, by email and posters at the entrances to the Church.