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Celebrating An Timire agus Foilseacháin Ábhar Spioradálta

June 12, 2015

Foilseacháin Ábhar Spioradálta (FS) who have been publishing books in Irish on spirituality and culture since 1956 have just launched three of their latest titles.

A listening Church and an empowered laity

June 3, 2015

Gerry O'Hanlon SJ has twice written publicly on the subject of the marriage equality referendum on 22 May. In both he argues strenuously for the Catholic Church in Ireland to...

Finding God in grief

June 3, 2015

'Walk with me into the Light: Some Comfort on the Journey Through Grief', is a new and practical booklet from Messenger Publications written by healthcare chaplain Margaret Naughton for the...

Housing is a ‘sacred right’

June 3, 2015

'Homelessness is worse now than at any time in recent memory' says Peter McVerry SJ in the latest issue of Working Notes, the journal of the Jesuit Centre for Faith...

Warm tributes paid to Lúcás Chan SJ, RIP

June 2, 2015

Warm tributes have been paid by noted academics and theologians from Ireland and around the world to Fr. Lúcás Chan SJ (46), a Hong Kong native and Jesuit of the...

Pray, learn, practise

May 22, 2015

Brendan McManus SJ was part of an ecumenical team giving an innovative course in Spritual DIrection to students at Regis College, Toronto. It involved theory, practise and a retreat.

How to vote wisely

May 20, 2015

Fifteen people took part in the referendum workshop on 'Making Good Decisions' organised by team members of the Jesuit Centre of Spirituality and Culture in Galway. Their feedback was encouraging.

“Chronic overcrowding in prisons must end,” says JCFJ

May 20, 2015

"Several critical objectives have not been met", in the Irish Prison Service’s Strategic Plan 2012–2015, says Eoin Carroll, Advocacy Officer of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.

‘They will never silence us’

May 20, 2015

Archbishop Romero will be beatified as a modern-day martyr who saw the fight for justice in El Salvador as a political and economic struggle against the forces of sin and...