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Not 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.

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A 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.

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Pope 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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‘A heart larger than the world’

March 20, 2023

Brian Grogan SJ has just received a US Independent Press Award for his biography of Pedro Arrupe SJ .In this interview he gives a short synopsis of his life.

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Final thoughts

February 27, 2023

Jesuit theologian Jim Corkery assesses the late Pope Benedict's 'conservatism' regarding the role of women in the Church and other controversial issues.

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Words matter

February 7, 2023

Theologian Jim Corkery SJ discusses the legacy of Pope Benedict XV1 in regard to his controversial reform of English in the liturgy.

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Fifty-eight most powerful words

January 20, 2023

"The fifty-eight most powerful words in the world." is how Richard Leonard SJ describes the Lord's Prayer, in his latest book The Law of Love.

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Pope Benedict and the abuse scandals

January 19, 2023

Theologian Jim Corkery SJ assesses the legacy of the late Pope Benedict XV1 in terms of his handling of the clerical sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church.