Dermot Roantree

Dermot Roantree is content editor with Irish Jesuit Communications. He has a doctorate in Modern History and many years of teaching and of e-learning projects behind him. He is married with two children.
Homelessness theologically understood

May 9, 2023

The JCFJ Annual Lecture 2023, given by Dr Suzanne Mulligan, focused on the theological underpinnings of the Centre’s homelessness advocacy.

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Climate workshop in Milltown

March 22, 2023

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice ran a climate workshop in Milltown to explain the science behind climate change and to encourage people to address it in their lives.

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Ireland in 2030: Thinking ahead

March 7, 2023

The spring 2023 issue of Studies publishes papers from an RIA seminar that asked: 'What would we like Ireland to look like in 2030?'

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Jesuits and colleagues serve as witnesses in South Sudan

December 19, 2022

Irish woman Noelle Fitzpatrick reports on how the Jesuit Refugee Service is addressing the crises faced by the people of South Sudan.

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Studies: Light in dark times

December 6, 2022

The winter issue of Studies leads with essays that, in different ways, illustrate the theme of 'Light in dark times' – sources of hope in the midst of our age...

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Studies: Changing Catholic culture

September 27, 2022

The autumn Studies reflects on the seismic shift in Irish Catholicism over recent decades, in the light of Derek Scally’s The Best Catholics in the World.

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Pope to Jesuit editors: ‘Reality is superior to ideas’

June 14, 2022

Pope Francis tells the editors of European Jesuit cultural journals that human reality is much more important than abstract ideas.

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The Boy From Eccles Street who dared to be different

June 9, 2022

On the 8th of May 1861, John Sullivan was born to parents of a mixed marriage at 41 Eccles Street Dublin. This is the story of his early life and...

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Working Notes: Migrations in our common home

June 7, 2022

The recent 'Working Notes' publishes a set of papers from an SMA summer school on 'Migrations in our Common Home'.

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