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Sleep-out reaches a million
February 17, 2009
Fr Peter McVerry SJ unveiled a plaque in Belvedere College to acknowledge that the “Sleep Out” run by the students of the College had raised over €1,000,000 for the upkeep...
Read moreTalking about democracy
February 3, 2009
Irish Provincial John Dardis launched a new Jesuit initiative on Tuesday 3 February – the Conversation on Democracy in Ireland. It is a follow-on to Edmond Grace’s recent work on...
Read moreBuilding homes in Madagascar
February 3, 2009
Fifth year students from Gonzaga College in Dublin are once again raising money to help build homes in Madagascar, working in conjunction with Habitat For Humanity. They hope to raise...
Read moreJCFJ trip studies support after prison
January 27, 2009
Tony O’Riordan SJ and Eoin Carroll, from the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, recently hosted a study trip to a number of support projects for people coming out of...
Read moreSalvadoran Martyrs
January 27, 2009
A Spanish court has begun an investigation into the murder of six Jesuits (five of them Spanish citizens) and two laywomen in El Salvador in 1989. Although two soldiers were...
Read moreWorld Day of Migrants
January 13, 2009
‘Floods of refugees’, ‘waves of migrants’, ‘immigration flow’… In an incisive article for World Day of Migrants and Refugees (18 January), Eugene Quinn, director of JRS Ireland, identifies a dehumanising...
Read moreFollowing a star
January 13, 2009
On Tuesday 6 January, the feast of the Epiphany, Michael Hurley made a brief appearance on the RTE 1 programme Witness. He could be seen star-gazing through a telescope in...
Read moreJRS brings Christmas cheer to migrant kids
January 6, 2009
Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland ran a very successful Christmas toy appeal, collecting a huge number of toys for distribution to more than 120 children of migrants and asylum seekers. The...
Read moreIs Henry really a Jesuit?
January 6, 2009
An article in the Irish News of 5 January recalled the reconciliation work of Henry Grant SJ twenty years ago. One of the Protestants who attended Henry’s workshops was John...
Read moreA life of passion: Peter McVerry SJ
January 6, 2009
“There’s an orderly kind of aimlessness in the basement of 26 Sherrard Street…” So begins Kathy Sheridan’s Saturday Interview with Peter McVerry SJ in the Irish Times, 20 December 2008....
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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'.
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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.
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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
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Pope video: For prayer with the word of God
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Pope video: For Christians in areas of conflict
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Faithful Justice: Reimagining the Jesuit Mission
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‘Dangerous as hell’
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Theology in a changing world
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