Social Justice
The age-of-consent dilemma
December 19, 2006
In this transcript of an interview for Religious News Network (RNN), Pat Coyle tells Eileen Good of her reservations about lowering the age of consent in Ireland. The current debate...
Read moreThe opposite of stability
December 19, 2006
It is a grace, not a curse, to be born into an age of instability, argues Paul Andrews. Jesus himself sought to rock people in their comfortable worlds, and this...
Read moreFr John Hayes: a Jesuit at war
November 29, 2006
November 29, 2006 Fr John Hayes: a Jesuit at war New book relates story of WWII Jesuit hero by Patrick McNamara John Hayes, the son of Michael and Agnes Hayes...
Read moreThe Shaun Doherty Magazine Show – Highland Radio Donegal
November 23, 2006
Following RTÉ’s <em>Final Judgement</em> programme on the issue of women’s ordination, Gerry O’Hanlon SJ was asked about this topic. The discussion on the popular morning programme of one of Ireland’s...
Read moreIn the Poorer Quarters – RTÉ1
November 12, 2006
RTE’s Aidan Mathews, a former Gonzaga student, referred to his education by the “J’s” in his weekly Sunday programme, ‘<a href=”http://jesuit.ie/blog/serendipity/exit.php?url_id=3&entry_id=7″ onmouseover=”window.status=’http://tinyurl.com/yh7rpr’;return true;” onmouseout=”window.status=”;return true;” title=”In the Poorer Quarters”>In the...
Read moreGiving of oneself in Zambia and not counting the cost
October 19, 2006
Conor Gannon went to Zambia with a group of Slí Eile volunteers and worked there with sisters of Mother Teresa’s order. He was deeply impressed both with the sisters and...
Read moreCherishing our crèche-children equally?
October 19, 2006
David Gaffney is concerned that, more and more, parents are practically compelled to have their children spend an inordinate amount of time in crèche facilities, and that this may well...
Read moreListening and learning: dealing with the threat of suicide
October 19, 2006
Brendan McManus was at a conference of the Console Suicide Bereavement Group in Dublin on September 22. He was impressed by the concern and good sense of the speakers. The...
Read moreA conversion of mentalities needed in Europe and Africa
October 19, 2006
Africans need to be respected as the authors of their own future, according to the attendants at a recent conference of Scribani, a network of European Jesuit centres, working on...
Read moreRuined for life!
October 19, 2006
Mary Stokes had her life ‘ruined’ by spending a year with the Jesuit Volunteer Communities. Thanks to what she learned about community, spirituality and social justice, she can never look...
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January Messenger: A Year of Hope
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‘Do You Believe This?’
January 10, 2025 - Tom Layden SJ,Province Co-Ordinator for Ecumenism, is urging Jesuits and friends to take part in Christian Unity Week, 18 -25 January, 2025.
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