Paul Andrews SJ
Fr Jim Hayes RIP: committed to kindness and service of the Gospel
February 10, 2016
Paul Andrews SJ pays tribute to the Limerick-born Jesuit (pictured here with fellow-Jesuit ordinands, 1965) who is remembered with great regard for putting the needs of others first.
Read moreWhy Mass should be called Mass, not Eucharist or Liturgy
September 18, 2007
Some Catholics tend to play down the term ‘Mass’ in favour of ‘Liturgy’ or ‘Eucharist’. Paul Andrews regrets this tendency. ‘Mass’, he argues, is more consonant with the culture of...
Read moreWomen with child
January 19, 2007
Paul Andrews stresses the need for people to perceive pregnancy positively and for society to respond compassionately to the needs of women at this vulnerable time of their lives, no...
Read moreThe opposite of stability
December 19, 2006
It is a grace, not a curse, to be born into an age of instability, argues Paul Andrews. Jesus himself sought to rock people in their comfortable worlds, and this...
Read moreOn holy ground
October 19, 2006
Paul Andrews reflects on what it means to him to be both priest and therapist. Both roles entail bringing people to good health, he says, and overall he is there...
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“Your clothes are stained with our blood”
January 24, 2023 - Dr Kevin Hargaden of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice was shocked by what he learnt at a conference in Bangladesh, exploring the idea of a 'just wage' there.
Biography of a Jesuit-educated judge
January 23, 2023 - 'Judge John O'Hagan, 1825-1890', on the life of a respected patriot, poet, scholar and lawyer, is among the most recent Messenger books.
Mícheál Mac Gréil SJ: RIP
January 21, 2023 - President Michael D. Higgins has led the tributes to Mícheál Mac Gréil SJ, the social justice activist and community campaigner who died on 21 January, aged 92.
Fifty-eight most powerful words
January 20, 2023 - "The fifty-eight most powerful words in the world." is how Richard Leonard SJ describes the Lord's Prayer, in his latest book The Law of Love.
Latest Podcasts
“Your clothes are stained with our blood”
January 24, 2023
Fifty-eight most powerful words
January 20, 2023
Pope Benedict and the abuse scandals
January 19, 2023
Benedict XVI’s theological legacy
January 10, 2023
Latest Videos
Pope Video: For educators
January 11, 2023
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December 5, 2022
Jesuit vocations film – ‘Walking with Jesus Christ’
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November 4, 2022
Latest Books
Biography of a Jesuit-educated judge
January 23, 2023
‘The Mindful Our Father’ – New Messenger book
January 3, 2023
Disciples of courage
December 2, 2022
Maynooth College: Essays on dying and death
November 17, 2022
