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Mark Patrick Hederman provides a thoughtful and readable account of the history of dialogue in the Catholic Church since the pontificate of John XXIII.!
Mark Patrick Hederman
DonMark Patrick Hederman, OSB, former Abbot of Glenstal Abbey, County Limerick, Ireland, is a Benedictine monk, teacher, lecturer and writer.
Formerly headmaster of the school at Glenstal, he was later named academic dean.
Biography
Hederman comes from Ballingarry, the second son in a family of four.[1] Of Glenstal, he said in 2009, "I came here as a boy to school when I was twelve years of age, and apart from about ten years of my life spent in Africa, America and other parts of Europe, I have never lived anywhere else.
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... It only existed as a monastery thirty years before I arrived."[2]
Dom Patrick earned a doctorate degree from UCD[1] in the philosophy of education. He has lectured in philosophy and literature outside Ireland, most notably in the United States and Nigeria.
Hederman helped found the cultural journal, The Crane Bag.[citation needed] With Richard Kearney he edited the two-volume collecti