Amanullah De Sondy is head of the study of religions department at University College Cork, Ireland. De Sondy has also been appointed as visiting honorary Islamic studies scholar at the University of Melbourne 2024. He is a regular source on broadcast television in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and Europe, speaking to issues related to […]

Gerard Madden is an Irish historian who specializes in the Catholic Church’s efforts to stamp out socialism and communism in Ireland during the 20th century.

Daniel Faas is an associate professor of sociology at Trinity College Dublin. He studies social change and identity formation, with an emphasis on migration, religion and education.

Rachel Monaghan is professor of peace and conflict at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in the U.K. She studies political violence, with a particular interest in paramilitary conflict in Northern Ireland.

Marie Collins is a survivor of clergy sexual abuse who now advocates for meaningful change in Catholic Church policy. She was appointed to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in 2014, but she resigned in frustration in 2017 because of a lack of action from Vatican officials.

Sean O’Callaghan is an associate professor of religion at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. He studies New Religious Movements, religiously motivated violence and transhumanism.

Jane Mellett is a parish pastoral worker in the Archdiocese of Dublin. In 2018, she tweeted every line of Laudato Si’ to President Donald Trump to protest his environmental policies.