Irish Jesuit Communications
Jesuits publish latest Safeguarding Report
April 1, 2026
Updated child sexual abuse allegations, and details of the Jesuit Safeguarding Office's diverse activities, feature in their just-published annual report.
Read more‘Follow the money’
March 13, 2026
As the USA's war with Iran continues, Dr Phyllis Zagano, friend of IJC, has turned her attention to a conflict which has the world on edge.
Read moreSomething different this Lent
February 27, 2026
Aidan Mathews' Lenten retreat - 'unique and provocative' - is on offer again for those who are willing to be discomfited.
Read more‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
February 13, 2026
The Vatican's second commission on the diaconate recently published a letter revealing a 50/50 split on whether women could 'image Christ'.
Read moreWhy not women deacons?
December 10, 2025
Dr Phyllis Zagano is a specialist on the diaconate. Her interviews with Pat Coyle are republished here in the light of the Vatican's recent announcement.
Read more‘A divine calling – a lifelong battle’
December 4, 2025
Author Soline Humbert tells the story of the power and pain of her vocation to the Catholic priesthood.
Read moreRecognising the good and the bad spirit
December 1, 2025
Irish Jesuits · Knowing God's will for me In this second part of her interview with American Jesuit theologian Bart Geger, Pat Coyle explores with him the ‘discernment of spirits’....
Read more‘Born That Way’– The power of narrative
November 26, 2025
Éamon Little, Limerick filmmaker and former Crescent pupil, speaks about his acclaimed new documentary 'Born That Way', based on the life of Patrick Lydon.
Read moreRené Girard and J.D. Vance
November 6, 2025
'Studies' editor Dermot Roantree features in in the Irish Times, speaking about the Catholic thinker behind J.D. Vance's conversion.
Read moreLessons to be learnt
November 6, 2025
Gerry O'Hanlon shares his views on what lessons need to be learnt from the recent pre-synodal meeting of over 200 people in Kilkenny,
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