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Cardinal launches MacGreil Survey
June 16, 2009
Micheál MacGréil opted for an internal launch of his report on religious attitudes in the Republic 2007-2008. John Cooney, who has always been fair to Micheál, gave the survey a...
Read moreSobering questions
June 16, 2009
On the day following the Dublin March for Abuse Victims, Provincial John Dardis met the heads of some ministries to reflect on serious questions: How could Religious lead such split lives, in which...
Read moreJCFJ tackles housing
June 16, 2009
For several years, a common view of housing was that ‘the boom could only get boomier’, said Kathy Sheridan, Irish Times journalist (pictured here), who launched ‘The Irish Housing System:...
Read moreAn Timire ag dul ar aghaidh
June 16, 2009
An Timire and FÁS have taken on a new manager in a drive to promote Irish-language publications. Fionnuala Mac Aodha (pictured here) will manage both operations from the Messenger office...
Read moreJRS and local elections
June 16, 2009
Eugene Quinn, National Director of JRS Ireland responded to allegations by some local election candidates that migrants have not contributed to Irish society as “fundamentally unfair”. In a contribution to...
Read moreFacing the fury
June 16, 2009
Brian Grogan was one of the Jesuits who joined the solidarity-with-victims march in Dublin. He was startled by the level of anger even in a silent march. Though he was...
Read moreHard school to get into
June 16, 2009
In his column in Avondhu (a Co. Cork weekly), David Gaffney SJ gives a new meaning to educational exclusivity. The Jesuit school in Kibera, a slum of Nairobi, Kenya, has...
Read moreJesuitica: Changing times
June 16, 2009
When Pope Gregory XIII needed advice on how to revise the Julian calendar in 1582, he turned to a Jesuit mathematician at the Roman College, Christopher Clavius, who said: “Suppress...
Read moreShort notices and events
June 16, 2009
The US Catholic network EWTN will broadcast the DVD entitled ‘The Heart of Jesus in History’ on their European network at 7.30 a.m. on Friday 19 June, the Feast of the...
Read moreLatest News
Climate workshop in Milltown
March 22, 2023 - The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice ran a climate workshop in Milltown to explain the science behind climate change and to encourage people to address it in their lives.
The ‘beautiful’ shepherd
March 22, 2023 - Aidan Mathews' Lenten retreat focuses on the parable of the Good Shepherd, with an interesting commentary on the appropriateness of the translation of the word 'good'
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.
‘Reimagining Religion’
March 22, 2023 - Jim Maher SJ's book @Reimagining Religion' addresses a fundamental spiritual malaise that expresses itself through injustice, wars, xenophobia, narcissism, exclusion, and other dehumanising behaviours.
Latest Podcasts
Pope Francis: The ‘zig-zag Pope’
March 22, 2023
‘A heart larger than the world’
March 20, 2023
Final thoughts
February 27, 2023
Words matter
February 7, 2023
Latest Videos
Pope Video: For victims of abuse
March 6, 2023
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February 7, 2023
Pope Video: For educators
January 11, 2023
Pope Video: For volunteer organisations
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Rediscovering Saint Patrick
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Living with Ignatius
February 28, 2023
‘Stations of the Cross’ book for Lent
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Dancing with loneliness
February 14, 2023
