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Provincial launches NCI strategic plan
November 23, 2022
Fr Leonard Moloney SJ launched the five-year strategic plan of the National College of Ireland. Homelessness campaigner Peter McVerry SJ was also awarded an honorary fellowship at the event.
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Change-Climate Project launched
November 23, 2022
JRS calls on Irish schools and students to continue to be ‘agents of change’ in responding to climate change and forced migration.
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Avoidable death of woman in custody
November 14, 2022
The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice says the tragic death in the Dóchas Centre should be a watershed moment for female imprisonment.
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Pope Video: For children who suffer
November 4, 2022
Pope Francis asks Christians to pray for children who are suffering, especially those who are homeless, orphans, and victims of war.
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Working Notes: Perspectives on our caring culture
November 1, 2022
The latest issue of Working Notes by JCFJ examines how care is expressed from societal and political perspectives in times of coronavirus.
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Tackling mental health and homelessness
October 17, 2022
The Peter McVerry Trust has just teamed up with the newly launched Reuven Field Foundation charity which is funding Irelands' first rural mobile mental health unit.
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Theology for a planet in crisis
October 4, 2022
Dr Dermot A. Lane rebukes humanity’s self-absorption and selfish harnessing of natural resources for a more integrated theology.
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McVerry Trust broadly welcomes budget
September 27, 2022
The Peter McVerry Trust has given a broad welcome to Budget 2023. It identified key areas which will impact positively on the people it works with.
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Asylum seekers enjoy JRS summer activities
September 26, 2022
Over 500 forcibly displaced young people and adults benefited from all of Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland's Summer Programme activities.
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Contributing to a critical conversation
September 20, 2022
Former President Mary McAleese and journalist Pat Leahy launched Jonathan Tiernan's new book, on the politics of primary education.
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Restoring women to a recovered diaconate
April 2, 2026 - Dr Phyllis Zagano continues her straight-talking exposition of the history of deacons in the church. She seeks to 'recover' the diaconate and 'restore' women to it.
The privilege of life-changing work
March 13, 2026 - Allan Ggita SJ is in Ireland speaking about his privileged life working with vulnerable communities in one of the largest slums in Kenya.
Our Mother Too: Mary Embraces the World
March 4, 2026 - Author Eric Clayton talks about his book that introduces children to Mary, the mother of Jesus, through eight apparitions around the world.
The challenge of co-creating
February 13, 2026 - James Hanvey SJ's exploration of the 'mission of creation' in St Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises is an integration of theology, spirituality, and cosmology.
‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
February 13, 2026 - The Vatican's second commission on the diaconate recently published a letter revealing a 50/50 split on whether women could 'image Christ'.
Latest Videos
Pray with the Pope: For priests in crisis
April 13, 2026 - Pope Leo XIV: In the spirit of the Gospel, we are invited to recognize our shared responsibility in supporting, encouraging and accompanying priests.
Pray with the Pope: For disarmament and peace
March 13, 2026 - Pope Leo: Renounce weapons and the arms race. May leaders have the courage to choose dialogue instead of conflict.
Pope Video: For children with incurable diseases
February 6, 2026 - Pope Video: “The smiles, in the midst of pain, of children suffering, are a testimony of God's Kingdom.”
Pope video: For prayer with the word of God
January 9, 2026 - Pope Video: "May your Word be nourishment in weariness, hope in darkness and strength in our communities"
Pope video: For Christians in areas of conflict
December 1, 2025 - Pope video: “That Christians in areas of war or conflict, especially the Middle East, might be seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope.”
Latest Blog Posts
Is the universe ‘done and dusted’?
April 17, 2026 - Bill Toner : : Does God really know everything, including the future? If so, it seems that the universe is truly 'done and dusted'. Bill Toner SJ is not so sure.
Faithful Justice: Reimagining the Jesuit Mission
March 31, 2026 - Dermot Roantree :: Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe SJ called a General Congregation in 1974-5 that redefined the Jesuit charism.
‘Dangerous as hell’
March 11, 2026 - Brendan McManus SJ :: Now is the time for people of goodwill to step forward; we need to protest these appalling, unjustified acts of violence and war.
The grasp of grief
February 25, 2026 - Colm Brophy :: The picture I have painted here is a symbol of the world’s uncertainty of its own destination. We are traumatised by immense grief.
Theology in a changing world
January 27, 2026 - Bill Toner :: Modern scientific progress poses serious challenges to theology. Can the once 'queen of the sciences' respond adequately to its challenges?