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Facing the referendum
September 1, 2009
After Ireland’s No in the first Lisbon referendum, Mr Cowen won some special concessions from his European colleagues to secure a favourable vote second time round. In a gentle but...
Read moreThunder clouds over Lomarati
September 1, 2009
Writing from the Sudan in June, Richard O’Dwyer SJ described his first visit to Lomarati, a remote mountain location to which he had been invited to say Mass. He was...
Read moreJesuits teaching the teachers
August 25, 2009
It is 100 years since Tim Corcoran SJ was appointed the first professor of education in UCD. Speaking at the launch of the centenary celebrations last May, Prof. Sheelagh Drudy...
Read moreManresa hosts Kenyan orphans
August 25, 2009
For the second year running, Manresa has played host this summer to a group of HIV-positive orphans from Kenya. Sixteen children between the ages of 12 and 17 spent a...
Read moreReturn of the Lisbon Treaty
August 25, 2009
In the first of a series of podcasts, Edmond Grace SJ argues earnestly that the Irish ought to vote Yes to Lisbon in the upcoming referendum. To vote against the...
Read moreSpirituality in times of trauma
July 7, 2009
Michael O’Sullivan SJ delivered one of the papers at the second European Conference on the Academic Study of Spirituality, which took place last week in London. His paper – “Gender,...
Read moreWith refugees in Goma, Congo
July 7, 2009
Gerry Clarke SJ, coordinator of programmes for the Jesuit Refugee Service, Goma, recalls moments before the North of Ireland peace process when he thought the Northern conflict would go on forever. The bombings...
Read moreDistance no object
July 7, 2009
Fr General recently expressed strong interest in setting up a studio in the Curia for video-conferencing. An excellent studio already exists in the Bellarmino in Rome, and on 30 July, the ...
Read moreSound sense
June 30, 2009
For the last two years a Czech-born sound artist has been working with the children of St Declan’s school, taking each class for half an hour a week. “I’m not...
Read moreMoment of Grace
June 30, 2009
Farmleigh House was the venue for an event which Edmond Grace SJ, helped by Declan Kearney, Dee O’Donnell, Des O’Mahony and Michael Kenny, organised for the Conversation on Democracy in...
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
