News
Crescent girls get taste of contemplative life
October 9, 2019
Students from Crescent College Limerick SJ went to Glencairn to live and work with Ireland's only Cistercian contemplative nuns
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Addressing conflict and reconciliation
October 9, 2019
The themes of conflict and the possibility of reconciliation dominate the winter 2019 issue of 'Studies: Irish Quarterly Review'
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Morning prayer for Mental Health Week
October 9, 2019
ANNE MARIE DOLAN :: The role that Ignatian spirituality can play in the positive mental health of young people and the greatest gift of all – time.
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Three chords and the truth
October 9, 2019
BRENDAN McMANUS :: A review of 'Wild Rose', the 'redemption story' of a country music singer.
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New book on Newman
October 9, 2019
Messenger Publications is marking the upcoming canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman with the publication of a concise biography by Fr Michael Collins
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Discerning for a collaborative future
October 7, 2019
Irish Jesuit Terry Howard SJ and Sr Moira Mc Dowall, and Mary O'Connor were in Italy recently engaging in communal discernment about their work
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Making space within the asylum system
October 4, 2019
The Jesuit Refugee Service warns that recent improvements to Ireland’s under-pressure direct-provision system could be reversed
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Milltown Park Library moves to DCU
October 3, 2019
The Jesuits have transferred the Milltown Park library to DCU in a partnership agreement. "It will be a living library," says the Irish Jesuit Provincial
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Johnson shows how explosive language can be
October 3, 2019
TOM CASEY SJ :: Boris Johnson's inflammatory language alerts us to the need to watch our own tongues.
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Missionary spring in the Church
October 2, 2019
In The Pope Video for October 2019, Francis proposes imparting a "new impulse to the Church’s missionary activity" based on a solid foundation of prayer
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‘The Soul Also Keeps the Score’
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Sharing bread in Bethlehem
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‘The grandeur of humanity’
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Philosophical reflections
June 4, 2026 - Dr Dermot Roantree discusses some of the main themes in the thought of Jürgen Habermas, the German philosopher who died recently.
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July 3, 2026 - Pope Video July: Embrace a culture of love, tenderness, responsibility, and compassionate care.
Pray with the Pope: For the values of sports
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Fellowship, connection, hope
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The suffering of inocents in war and beyond
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Discerning voices: desolation and consolation
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Small steps with God’s help
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