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About Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD
Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, S.V.D. holds a Ph.D. in Theology and is Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland. A former doctoral student under Joseph Ratzinger, Twomey is the author of several books, including The End of Irish Catholicism?, Pope Benedict XVI: The Conscience of Our Age (A Theological Portrait), and Moral Theology after Humanae Vitae. His most recent books are The Dynamics of Liturgy—Joseph Ratzinger's Theology of Liturgy: An Interpretation (Ignatius Press, 2022) and Apostolikos Thronos, Rival Accounts of Roman Primacy in Eusebius and Athanasius (Emmaus Academic, 2023, revised edition). In 2011, Benedict XVI awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal to Fr. Twomey for outstanding services rendered to the Church and to the Holy Father.
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The Mystery of the Church’s Catholicity

June 20, 2024 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 12

Editor’s note: This essay was originally given, in a slightly different form, as a public lecture on the centenary of the foundation of the Central Catholic Library, Dublin. ———– Like many Catholics in Ireland today, […]

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The theological legacy of Benedict XVI

April 16, 2024 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 26

Editor’s note: Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born 97 years ago today, on Holy Saturday, 1927. In recognition of that day, CWR is reposting this essay, originally published on Jan. 2, 2023, by one […]

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The refined, problematic casuistry of Abp. Fernández’s defense of chapter 8 of “Amoris Laetitia”

July 6, 2023 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 26

Archbishop Fernández’s essay on the controversial eighth chapter of Amoris Laetitia attempted to dispel doubts about that papal document’s orthodoxy but has only raised more […]

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What it was like to learn from Joseph Ratzinger in the 1970s

January 4, 2023 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 3

My six years at the new University of Regensburg, sitting at the feet of Joseph Ratzinger in the 1970s, profoundly marked my life and thought. When I went there in 1971, I did so at […]

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Opinion: Is taking the COVID-19 vaccine a moral duty?

February 19, 2021 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 46

The long-awaited anti-COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out1. It is presumed that they have been tested under the usual rigorous conditions, since they have been declared safe by the appropriate medical and governmental authorities. Only those suitably […]

Analysis

What’s wrong with an Amazonian Rite?

May 20, 2020 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 16

In Querida Amazonia, Pope Frances noted that fifty years had passed since the Second Vatican Council had called for an effort to be made “to inculturate [sic] the liturgy among indigenous peoples”.1 He comments that “we […]

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Lessons from the Cardinal Pell Affair

May 1, 2020 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 16

Who steals my purse steals trash ’tis something, nothing; ‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands, But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, […]

Essay

The theological roots of the present crisis

August 3, 2018 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 35

An ambiguous attitude to “human sexuality” on the part of “mainstream” moral theology led in time to bishops effectively turning a blind eye to sinful […]

Essay

“Amoris Laetitia” and the chasm in modern moral theology

September 1, 2017 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 68

Can the apostolic exhortation help bridge the chasm that, since 1968, has divided moral theologians in matters of sexual morality? […]

The Salzburg Declaration emphasizes necessity of an ecumenical “ecology of man”

February 23, 2016 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 1

Something quite remarkable—indeed historic—happened in Salzburg, Austria, on September 6th last. The occasion was an ecumenical Congress organized by the [Protestant] International Christian Network (Internationale Konferenz Bekennender Gemeinschaften). What made the event so notable was […]

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