Podcasts
You can’t earn the gift of God’s love
June 6, 2023
Niall Leahy SJ reflects on the Parable of the Prodigal Son and how Catholics can get it wrong by doing all the 'right' things.
Read more‘Dismissed, discredited, and badly treated’
May 16, 2023
Professor Phyllis Zagano answers candidly the question "Are you hopeful about the future and the ordination of women to the diaconate?"
Read moreThrowing down the gauntlet
May 5, 2023
There are no women amongst the 47,000 permanent deacons in the Roman Catholic Church today. Professor Phyllis Zagano explains how this happened and how it can change.
Read more‘Creeping infallibility’ and women’s ordination
May 5, 2023
What really lies behind the Catholic Church's refusal to allow women become priests? Dr Gerry O'Hanlon SJ shares his thoughts.
Read moreSons of Ignatius podcast: The Bible and the Big Bang
May 2, 2023
Niall Leahy SJ speaks to Canadian astronomer Adam Hincks SJ about his life, science and theology, and beautiful discoveries.
Read morePope Francis and women’s ordination
April 20, 2023
Irish Jesuit theologian Gerry O'Hanlon SJ outlines and critiques the theology underpinning Pope Francis' position on the ordination of women in the Catholic Church.
Read moreOrdaining women deacons
April 20, 2023
Thirty-six Popes were ordained as deacons but never as priests. Just one of the fascinating facts from Dr Phyllis Zagano, expert on the diaconate.
Read moreNot less than everything
April 4, 2023
It's the 1960s and Fr General Pedro Arrupe SJ is faced with implementing the revolutionary changes in the church as envisioned by Vatican II. Brian Grogan tells the story.
Read moreA transformative experience
March 30, 2023
Deirdre Soffe and Seamus Crimmins (see photo with Ursula Halligan in centre) recently completed the M.Phil in theology at the Loyola Institute TCD. They share their experience.
Read morePope Francis: The ‘zig-zag Pope’
March 22, 2023
Gerry Whelan SJ, Director of the Department of Fundamental Theology in the Gregorian University in Rome assesses the last ten years of Pope Francis' papacy.
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