Patrick Riordan SJ

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Irish Jesuit honoured in Rome

January 11, 2022

Patrick Riordan SJ is awarded the 2021 edition of the Centesimus Annus Foundation’s prize for his book 'Recovering Common Goods'.

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Does Common Good mean anything?

November 7, 2018

Dr Patrick Riordan SJ is concerned about populism's common but unreflective use of the term 'the common good'

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Love, law and the 8th amendment

May 2, 2018

Irish Jesuit philosopher Dr Patrick Riordan discusses the 8th Amendment in light of his recent talk at Trinity College Dublin

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Democracy in peril

September 13, 2017

The theme of the current issue of Studies is the threats posed in recent times to democracy, even in some of the world's most staunchly democratic states

The Church and paternalism

February 24, 2015

The Milltown Institute's spring lecture series on the reception of Vatican II over 50 years continued with 'Is the Church unjustifiably paternalistic in speaking of the common good', by Patrick...

Jesuit book club community

September 27, 2023 - The online, cross border book club of the Belfast Jesuit Centre are inviting new members to join their Tuesday evening gatherings.

Studies: Art, literature and national identity

September 26, 2023 - The autumn 2023 issue of 'Studies' has as its main theme the "web of indebtedness" into which Irish art and literature is woven.

Ireland’s most vulnerable groups

September 26, 2023 - 'Unheard Voices: Irish Travellers and the Struggle for Social Justice', is the theme of the latest edition of Working Notes published by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.

September 26, 2023 - In his latest book Brian O’Leary SJ explores how St Ignatius has more recently been recognised as a major mystic in the Western Christian tradition alongside Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross.