Bosco Antony Ryan Priest · Teacher of Catholic Faith

Published Resources

Writings & research

One book, three articles in the Indian Journal of Spirituality, and a continuing seminar ministry — all of it circling the same question: how God turns a human heart, and what that turning asks of the Church afterwards.

The Book

Seminal Conversion Experience of Paul and Newman

Two conversions stand at the head of the Christian tradition. One took place on the road to Damascus, in a flash of light that left a persecutor blind. The other took place quietly, over years of reading and argument and reluctance, and ended with an Anglican divine received into the Catholic Church in a cottage at Littlemore.

Drawn from the doctoral research completed at St. Peter's Pontifical Institute in 2011, this study sets the two beside one another — asking what elements they share, and what those elements have to say to a Catholic spirituality that must still convert hearts today.

Full title
Seminal Conversion Experience of Paul and Newman: A Comparison and Relevance to Contemporary Catholic Spirituality
Publisher
Christian World Prints, Delhi
Year
2021
Enquiries. For copies of the book, or to request it for a library or seminary, please write to Fr. Bosco.

Articles in Journals

Three studies in the Indian Journal of Spirituality

Published between 2008 and 2010, during the years of his doctoral research.

  1. 2008

    Prophetic Dimension of Jesus

    Indian Journal of Spirituality, 21.3 (July–September 2008): 207–234.

    A study of Christ under the figure of the prophet — the one who speaks for God and is refused for it — and of what that office means for the Church that continues it.

  2. 2009

    Liminal Spirituality of Cardinal Newman

    Indian Journal of Spirituality, 22.1 (April–June 2009): 189–212.

    Newman spent much of his life on a threshold — between Oxford and Rome, between a Church he loved and a Church he came to believe. This article reads that threshold not as an interruption of his spirituality but as its very shape.

  3. 2010

    The Speeches of Paul in Acts: An Indication of Lucan-Pauline / Pauline-Lucan Spirituality

    Indian Journal of Spirituality, 23.1 (January–March 2010): 5–34.

    An examination of the speeches Luke places on Paul's lips, and of what they reveal about the spirituality shared — and shaped — between the evangelist and the apostle.

“I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith.”
Romans 1:16

Seminars & Presentations

Spoken theology

Alongside the published work, Fr. Bosco is regularly invited to address clergy, religious and lay gatherings.

  1. 2023

    Pope Francis' Vision for the Church

    Don Bosco Theological Centre, Kavarapettai · 9 September 2023.

    A reading of the Holy Father's programme for the Church — synodality, mercy, and a Church that goes out — delivered to a theological audience.

This record will grow. Further seminars, retreat conferences and lectures will be listed here as they are given. Invitations are welcome.

Research

The themes he returns to

Theme

Conversion

What happens when God turns a human life — and how the Church is to recognise it, accompany it and not mistake it for something else.

Theme

St. John Henry Newman

The subject of his licentiate, his doctorate, one of his articles and his book — read as a spiritual theologian, not only as a controversialist.

Theme

Pauline Spirituality

The apostle's own interior life as it surfaces in the letters and in the speeches that Luke records in Acts.

Homilies, talks and recordings

Video and audio from his preaching and teaching are being gathered. The media library opens shortly.

Media