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Two schools, two writers, one award

April 19, 2006

A Jesuit connection between Joyce and Beckett has been the premise for a literary award given out each year to a pupil from either Clongowes or Portora, explains Bruce Bradley....

Rising son returns from East

April 19, 2006

Joe Mallin SJ, son of Commdt. Michael Mallin, who was executed for his role in the Easter Rising, has been invited to join dignitaries at the commemoration events this Easter....

Strange connections

April 11, 2006

April 11, 2006 Strange connections What has Tennessee Williams to do with the Jubilee Year? by Bernard McGuckian SJ Thomas Williams died on 23rd February 1983. He wasn’t Welsh as...

A prayer mission for our times

March 20, 2006

The internet is a vast new continent, and Sacred Space represents a new kind of mission there, one which has attracted a huge and growing following, explains Dermot Roantree. In...

AMDG – A world is not enough

March 20, 2006

The December 2005 issue of AMDG carried a story, “You didn’t know Ignatius was Irish?” In it Paul Campbell told about the new film on the first Jesuits. You can...

The power of friendship

March 20, 2006

In the second and third of his articles on St Francis Xavier from The Messenger, Gerry Bourke explores the effect of the friendship of Ignatius Loyola and Peter Faber on...

Never go back: a refugee’s story

March 20, 2006

Egide Dhala, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, describes his experience of arriving in Ireland as a refugee and registers his gratitude to the JRS for their help. Jesuit Missionaries...

Working with lepers

March 20, 2006

St Francis Xavier was a frequent visitor to a house for lepers when he was in Goa. Now another Jesuit, Fr Luis Ruiz, in spite of his great age, works...

If Francis were with us today

March 20, 2006

Patrick Carberry SJ reflects what St Francis Xavier has meant to him in the past and means for him now, and he imagines what the saint would have to say...

Exchanging worldly for missionary ambition

March 20, 2006

A bare-bone summary of the fascinating and eventful life of one of Christianity’s greatest saints, St Francis Xavier, a life with a profound message and a long legacy. 2006 is...

‘Community, punishment, forgiveness’

May 18, 2026 - The importance of 'not knowing' was a key theme of prison chaplain Pieter De Witte's lecture at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.

Swift return to St. Ignatius Church

May 18, 2026 - There has been much collaboration to ensure the safe return of an endangered bird species to St Ignatius' Church, Galway.

Mary’s ‘yes’

May 18, 2026 - May is the month of Mary. And Fr Gerard Condon reflects on her 'yes' to God at the annunciation in an article from the Messenger magazine.