Love in chaos : spiritual growth and the search for peace in Northern Ireland

New York : Continuum , 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 119 p. ; 21 cm. Notes; ""A Medio Media book."". Originally published: Reconciled being. London : Medio Media, 1997. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Chaotic hearts and unreconciled souls; learning how to unlearn; learning the discipline of love; practising love in chaos; building a reconciled self; building a reconciled world; the ministry of reconciliation. Summary; In this work, Mary McAleese shares her deepest beliefs about the way to lasting peace. She provides a perspective on the origins of violence and also the painful cure for it. She writes with the authority of a woman who has herself suffered sectarian violence but who has been actively involved for many years in the search for peace in Northern Ireland. Her insights draw on deep religious faith, the practice of meditation, and the irrepressible hope that is born of these. She illustrates her ideas with telling stories from her personal life and family, as well as her political experience. Subjects; Catholic Church - Doctrines. Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Catholic Church. Christianity and politics - Northern Ireland. Peace - Religious aspects - Catholic Church. Women in the Catholic Church. Peace. Peace - Religious aspects. Ireland - History. Ireland - Politics and government. Northern Ireland - Politics and government. Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict ; Christian theology ; Armed conflict ; Peace studies. Northern Ireland. Religion / Christianity / History. History / Europe / Ireland. Genre; Bibliography.