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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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Young women host Ignatian retreat
October 29, 2022
The Faber Community made use of the women's house in Clontarf, Dublin for a 'Pre Exercises' retreat from 21 to 23 October 2022.
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A new word for ‘sin’
October 28, 2022
Richard Leonard SJ scrutinises religious language in his book 'The Law of Love', and says the word 'sin' is meaningless for many young people. He has an alternative.
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Pope Francis and the gift of ‘overflow’
October 28, 2022
Austen Ivereigh was the keynote speaker at the launch of the Belfast Jesuit Spirituality Centre. Listen to his talk on “A New Imagination of the Possible: Pope Francis and the...
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Making world history
October 28, 2022
Austen Ivereigh, journalist and papal biographer, took part in the collation of the global synod document 'Enlarge the Space of Your Tent', just launched by Pope Francis .Listen to the...
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Willie Doyle SJ’s canonisation cause opens
October 27, 2022
Bishop Tom Deenihan has announced that he is to open the Cause for the Beatification and Canonisation of Fr Willie Doyle SJ.
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Belfast spirituality centre opened
October 24, 2022
Bishop Noel Traynor, Jesuits, colleagues, friends and local people all attended the launch of the Belfast Jesuit Centre for Spirituality.
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Sunday gospels in the year of Matthew
October 24, 2022
Reflections for the new liturgical year, along with inspirational quotes and invitations to 'go deeper' with the Word of God.
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The ten commandments revisited
October 21, 2022
Richard Leonard SJ's encounters with a supreme court judge and a secular Jew led him to review the ten commandments for his latest book 'The Law of Love'.
Read moreYoung people’s faith and mission
October 18, 2022
Members of NET Ministries talk to Niall Leahy SJ about their experience of faith and how they came to personally encounter Jesus.
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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?