Angelo Bottone
@angelobottone.bsky.social
Philosophy lecturer. Research officer at
The Iona Institute (Tweeting in a personal capacity). Distributist. Abruzzese. http://bottone.blogspot.com
The Iona Institute (Tweeting in a personal capacity). Distributist. Abruzzese. http://bottone.blogspot.com
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August 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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"Phenomenologies of Incarnation in Michel Henry and Emmanuel Falque: Saving Flesh, Redeeming Body"
Mark Novak
Explores how Henry and Falque articulate a phenomenology of the body and flesh in relation to incarnation. bit.ly/4adESRI
Mark Novak
Explores how Henry and Falque articulate a phenomenology of the body and flesh in relation to incarnation. bit.ly/4adESRI
December 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Phenomenologies of Incarnation in Michel Henry and Emmanuel Falque: Saving Flesh, Redeeming Body"
Mark Novak
Explores how Henry and Falque articulate a phenomenology of the body and flesh in relation to incarnation. bit.ly/4adESRI
Mark Novak
Explores how Henry and Falque articulate a phenomenology of the body and flesh in relation to incarnation. bit.ly/4adESRI
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Why won’t the EU fund organisations with a traditional view of the family? ionainstitute.ie/why-wont-the...
Why won’t the EU fund organisations with a traditional view of the family?
The Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe (FAFCE) has accused the European Union of ‘ideological discrimination’ after being excluded from EU funding. In recent months, FAFCE applied fo...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Why won’t the EU fund organisations with a traditional view of the family? ionainstitute.ie/why-wont-the...
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Christmas card sent by Chief Justice Hugh and Mrs Clare Kennedy. Drawing by George Monks, depicting a scribe at work, with Dublin Castle, the Bermingham Tower (with tricolour) and the Chapel Royal in the background, [1924].
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Christmas card sent by Chief Justice Hugh and Mrs Clare Kennedy. Drawing by George Monks, depicting a scribe at work, with Dublin Castle, the Bermingham Tower (with tricolour) and the Chapel Royal in the background, [1924].
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Anyone have one last Christmas card they fancy sending to the CEO of Postnord Denmark to mark this tragic and terrible end of an era? Sadly no more letter deliveries for the Danish after 2025. #PromoteLetters ☹️📮🇩🇰💔
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Anyone have one last Christmas card they fancy sending to the CEO of Postnord Denmark to mark this tragic and terrible end of an era? Sadly no more letter deliveries for the Danish after 2025. #PromoteLetters ☹️📮🇩🇰💔
More good news on the ‘quiet revival’ front ionainstitute.ie/more-good-ne...
More good news on the ‘quiet revival’ front
After decades of steady decline, the proportion of Americans who identify as Christians appears to have stabilised, according to a major new survey by the Pew Research Center. Moreover, the youngest a...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
More good news on the ‘quiet revival’ front ionainstitute.ie/more-good-ne...
Government has stuck its head in the sand over birth rates
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Government has stuck its head in the sand over birth rates
At a press conference last week, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe was asked by Gript journalist, Ben Scallan, whether Ireland should adopt pro-natalist policies to raise our very low birth rate.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Government has stuck its head in the sand over birth rates
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How Christianity provides meaning and community and atheism does not ionainstitute.ie/how-christia...
How Christianity provides meaning and community and atheism does not
What happens when a person converts from one religion to another, or abandons religion altogether? A major new report charts exactly this, and a big finding is that “Conversion into Christianity appea...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
How Christianity provides meaning and community and atheism does not ionainstitute.ie/how-christia...
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OPINION: They were profoundly accomplished readers, writers and thinkers with a broad and abiding popularity, but an undeniably biblical imagination underpins their respective works.
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Tolkien, Lewis and the problem of 'Christian' art
(RNS) — The Bible still has the capacity to inspire profound art in those who love it.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
OPINION: They were profoundly accomplished readers, writers and thinkers with a broad and abiding popularity, but an undeniably biblical imagination underpins their respective works.
religionnews.com/2025/11/10/t...
religionnews.com/2025/11/10/t...
I have contributed a chapter on “Newman’s Engagement with Locke’s Epistemology” to the new Gracewing volume “John Henry Newman the educator. His formation, philosophy and legacy”
gracewing.co.uk/page175.html
gracewing.co.uk/page175.html
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I have contributed a chapter on “Newman’s Engagement with Locke’s Epistemology” to the new Gracewing volume “John Henry Newman the educator. His formation, philosophy and legacy”
gracewing.co.uk/page175.html
gracewing.co.uk/page175.html
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Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church's highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, declaring him a doctor of the church.
Pope declares Cardinal Newman a church doctor and signals Catholic education is a priority
Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, declaring him a doctor of the church.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church's highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, declaring him a doctor of the church.
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Catholic patrons advocate participation in Department of Education survey on school choice
To participate in the survey please visit ⬇️
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
To read more about Catholic education click⬇️
www.catholicbishops.ie/2025/11/04/c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SCf...
To participate in the survey please visit ⬇️
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
To read more about Catholic education click⬇️
www.catholicbishops.ie/2025/11/04/c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SCf...
Bishop Deenihan asks all to participate in Department of Education and Youth survey
YouTube video by catholicbishops2024
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November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Catholic patrons advocate participation in Department of Education survey on school choice
To participate in the survey please visit ⬇️
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
To read more about Catholic education click⬇️
www.catholicbishops.ie/2025/11/04/c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SCf...
To participate in the survey please visit ⬇️
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
To read more about Catholic education click⬇️
www.catholicbishops.ie/2025/11/04/c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SCf...
GK Chesterton Defender of the family. A talk by Dale Ahlquist
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GK Chesterton Defender of the family. A talk by Dale Ahlquist
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October 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
GK Chesterton Defender of the family. A talk by Dale Ahlquist
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Breda O'Brien: What is the justice system for if we don’t believe in rehabilitation?
Breda O'Brien: What is the justice system for if we don’t believe in rehabilitation?
Serving time in prison should not be the start of a longer sentence of stigma and shame
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October 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Breda O'Brien: What is the justice system for if we don’t believe in rehabilitation?
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Weeks after the appointment of the Rt. Rev. Sarah Mullally as the leader of the Anglican Communion, conservative Anglican prelates in Africa have rejected the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and have proclaimed their own network of conservative churches the official voice of Anglicanism.
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Weeks after the appointment of the Rt. Rev. Sarah Mullally as the leader of the Anglican Communion, conservative Anglican prelates in Africa have rejected the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and have proclaimed their own network of conservative churches the official voice of Anglicanism.
Under threat
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Under threat
On Tuesday, while I was in the Iona Institute office, a threatening envelope containing white powder arrived. It claimed to be anthrax but…
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October 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Under threat
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Maria Steen: Significant spoilt vote in presidential election would embarrass the Government
In legal practice, although late nights are an occupational hazard, lawyers rarely do their best work after 3am. Yet Leo Varadkar was undeterred. In response to my comment that it would be in the...
In legal practice, although late nights are an occupational hazard, lawyers rarely do their best work after 3am. Yet Leo Varadkar was undeterred. In response to my comment that it would be in the...
Maria Steen: Significant spoilt vote in presidential election would embarrass the Government
In legal practice, although late nights are an occupational hazard, lawyers rarely do their best work after 3am. Yet Leo Varadkar was undeterred. In response to my comment that it would be in the inte...
www.independent.ie
October 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Maria Steen: Significant spoilt vote in presidential election would embarrass the Government
In legal practice, although late nights are an occupational hazard, lawyers rarely do their best work after 3am. Yet Leo Varadkar was undeterred. In response to my comment that it would be in the...
In legal practice, although late nights are an occupational hazard, lawyers rarely do their best work after 3am. Yet Leo Varadkar was undeterred. In response to my comment that it would be in the...
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Steen was presented almost like "an idea whose time has come," but some analysis suggests she might represent a moment that's already passed. I took a deep dive into where the Irish conservative right goes next, after Maria Steen’s failed presidential bid
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Where next for the conservative right after Maria Steen’s failed presidential bid?
There seems to be little hope of her heralding a revival of social conservatism given that her political cohort isn’t even comfortable calling itself ‘conservative’
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Steen was presented almost like "an idea whose time has come," but some analysis suggests she might represent a moment that's already passed. I took a deep dive into where the Irish conservative right goes next, after Maria Steen’s failed presidential bid
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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The problems with the new primary school curriculum ionainstitute.ie/the-problems...
The problems with the new primary school curriculum
The Department of Education has published the redeveloped Primary School Curriculum. It contains five broad subject areas and they will be all rolled out in schools over the next few months. Last year...
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September 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The problems with the new primary school curriculum ionainstitute.ie/the-problems...
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"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻
Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻
October 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻
Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻
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October 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM