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The Pope’s video for persecuted Christians

March 8, 2017

This month’s Pope’s video focuses on persecuted Christians around the world.

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Jesuit Plus changes publication day

March 8, 2017

Irish Jesuit Communication’s weekly production, Jesuit Plus, is changing its publication day from Friday to Monday

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The story of the napkin box

March 7, 2017

Paula Nolan from the Messenger Publications felt a moving of the spirit as she snapped the napkin box of the Jesuit community in Lower Leeson Street, Dublin.

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A Lenten treat

March 6, 2017

Aidan Mathews, RTÉ producer, playwright and poet, has written an online lenten retreat for Irish Jesuit Communications

Inspirational Jesuits

Karl Rahner

March 6, 2017

Karl Rahner was theological advisor at the Second Vatican Council. His role in shaping the modern church before, during and after the Council was immense.

Lent 2017: Week 2

Week 2: Stillness exercise

March 6, 2017

I simply cannot concentrate. But perhaps complex inattention is more fruitful (although I should not be thinking in productive terms) than a rudimentary focus. It is hard to consider infinity...

Lent 2017: Week 2

Week 2: Gospel reading

March 6, 2017

Matthew 13 New International Version (NIV) The Parable of the Weeds Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his...

Lent 2017: Week 2

Week 2: Prey

March 6, 2017

Every Christian is a heretic at heart. That is a true, if theatrical, way of stating the obvious fact that all of us have our scriptural preferences. We make selections...

Lent 2017: Week 2

Week 2: Pray

March 6, 2017

Butterflies, God bless them, are deeply attracted to the smell of human urine. That is not, of course, the first word in the sciences of the botany and/or biology of...