Covid-19

Deep ecological conversion needed in these crisis times

November 11, 2020

October's Working Notes sounds the alarm about accelerating ecological breakdown and other threats to healthy human existence brought into focus by the pandemic

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Why lockdown is like an Ignatian retreat

November 10, 2020

BRENDAN McMANUS SJ :: A time of lockdown is often experienced as an involuntary ‘retreat'. Insights from spiritual retreats can be helpful.

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8-day online directed retreat

October 28, 2020

Manresa Jesuit Centre of Spirituality offered retreatants encouragement and hope through personal guidance and direction from 9 to 17 October

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A view from Rome

October 27, 2020

Pope Francis hit the headlines for endorsing civil unions for same-sex partnerships. Gerry Whelan SJ in Rome gives the background to this and other recent Vatican stories

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Ten Ignatian tips for surviving autumn lockdown

October 27, 2020

BRENDAN McMANUS SJ :: Notes for a Zoom workshop on 'Praying your way to peace and positivity' in the latest lockdown phase

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The challenges of ‘Fratelli Tutti’

October 22, 2020

Irish Jesuit theologian Gerry O'Hanlon discusses the significance of Pope Francis' latest encyclical in which the Pope gives his unique take on 'the signs of the times'

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‘Ban evictions’ – Peter McVerry

October 19, 2020

Peter McVerry wants the government to restore the complete ban on evictions that was in place during the first Covid-19 lockdown in the country

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Apart but in communion

October 14, 2020

Clongowes Wood College SJ has taken the innovative step of broadcasting a live stream of their regular Sunday Mass with students as cameramen

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The ‘Crisis and Health Rosary’

October 7, 2020

A new Rosary eBook invites people to pray for all those who are affected by the coronavirus pandemic and for any other kind of illnesses

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Covid-19 emergency appeal

September 16, 2020

Restrictions on movement imposed to prevent Covid-19 spreading in African countries have had a catastrophic impact on vulnerable communities according to Irish Jesuit Missions

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