Abstract
ABSTRACT This article analyses the journalism of Fr Gerry Reynolds in the context of modernisation in Ireland. Identifying Reynolds as a ‘clerical moderniser,’ it describes two periods in which he devoted a substantial amount of time to journalism: 1962–1975, when he worked for Redemptorist Publications and the Catholic Communications Institute; and 1987–1989, when he wrote a column for Northern Ireland’s Irish News. In both periods, Reynolds emphasised Vatican II themes like the priority of individual conscience, laity and women, and ecumenism. It argues that like other clerical modernisers, Reynolds contributed to a cautious modernisation of Irish Catholicism from within.
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