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Celtic Tiger and Christian values
October 6, 2009
“We spent money we didn’t have on things we didn’t need” was Peter McVerry’s summary of the Celtic Tiger in his keynote address to the bi-annual Irish Religious Education Conference...
Read more‘Messenger’ in pink!
October 6, 2009
For the first time in The Messenger’s 121 year history its iconic red cover has been transposed to a flush of pink because The Messenger magazine has taken the lead...
Read moreMarking Gonzaga’s maturity
October 6, 2009
In a year’s time Gonzaga College will be sixty years old. On 4th October Fr. John Dardis, Jesuit Provincial, marked its maturity when he blessed and formally opened the college’s new...
Read moreMeetings matter!
October 6, 2009
“Eighty-five million meetings occur every day” according to Meetings Matter! by Brian Grogan SJ and Phyllis Brady: Veritas: 2009. Here is a practical, easy-to-use handbook on how to make the...
Read morePioneers vowing and ploughing
October 6, 2009
The Pioneers’ Heroic Offering, first made 120 years ago by Fr James Cullen in St Peter’s Cathedral, Belfast, drew hundreds of Pioneers to a jubilee Mass on the same spot....
Read moreGoodwill, trust and Europe
October 6, 2009
Edmond Grace SJ, who campaigned tirelessly for a ‘Yes’ vote on the Lisbon treaty, has written a brief reflection on the event and what it tells us about ourselves. “Last...
Read moreSchool Mass
October 6, 2009
Opening Masses are a feature of the beginning of the school year in most Catholic schools. Frs Donal Neary (Belvedere and Kings’ Inn St) and William Reynolds (Gardiner St Primary...
Read moreHopkins where he died
October 6, 2009
There is still time to see a unique dramatisation of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Newman House. Go there at 7 p.m. on 6th or 7th October, and relish (rather than...
Read moreJESUITICA: Superlative academic
October 6, 2009
When you read that Miquel Batllori i Munné SJ was awarded eleven honorary doctorates in one day, you could be tempted to think that he was an establishment figure who...
Read moreShort notices
October 6, 2009
Change at JCFJ: The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has a new Acting Director, Eoin Carroll. Gerry O’Hanlon SJ will still be working in the Centre, focusing on his...
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
Pope Video: For parishes
February 7, 2023
Pope Video: For educators
January 11, 2023
Pope Video: For volunteer organisations
December 5, 2022
Latest Books
Rediscovering Saint Patrick
March 6, 2023
Living with Ignatius
February 28, 2023
‘Stations of the Cross’ book for Lent
February 21, 2023
Dancing with loneliness
February 14, 2023
