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Jesuit schools – ‘agents of change’

July 6, 2016

St Declan's Primary School recently joined The Irish Jesuit Mission Office’s Development Education programme, and teacher Jacqueline Barry Duke learnt some valuable lessons in Uganda.

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Jesuits discuss ‘being human today’

July 6, 2016

Jesuits involved in the intellectual apostolates of the Irish, Dutch, British, and Flanders Provinces met recently to address the theme of 'What it means to be human'.

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Brexit – crisis and challenge

June 27, 2016

Kevin O'Higgins SJ hopes the Brexit decision can be reversed but that requires 'the pompous, bloated, bureaucratic, undemocratic and unaccountable EU' to rediscover its soul and its founding principles.

Jesuit devastated by Brexit

audio June 24, 2016

Pat Riordan SJ says he's shattered by the Brexit referendum result which could split up not just the EU but the UK as well.

The Church and the challenge of freedom

June 23, 2016

The Church can learn from secular society as well as share its own wisdom with it, according to Cardinal Reinhard Marx.

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Terry Eagleton: Against pluralism

June 22, 2016

Professor Terry Eagleton ensured a provocative start to the Loyola Institute's conference on 'The Role of Church in a Pluralist Society- Good Influence or Good Riddance?'

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Caring for our common home

audio June 22, 2016

Caring for the environment shouldn’t belong to any side, left or right. It is a task that 'belongs to everyone', according to Eamon Ryan TD.

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How much freedom of speech?

June 22, 2016

The Summer 2016 issue of Studies confronts the hard questions about the rights and limits to freedom of speech raised by the 'Charlie Hebdo' attack on 7 January 2015.