Spirituality

The leader within

April 5, 2011

Fifteen people completed the first Arrupe Leadership Progamme in Ireland, having spent six weekends over six months, examining leadership from a faith-based and Ignatian perspective. The course which took place...

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What makes a school Jesuit?

April 5, 2011

Australian Jesuit Richard Leonard was back in Ireland in late March to give three workshops. On Friday 25 March, he led teachers from the Jesuit colleges in exploring what it...

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A question of faith

April 5, 2011

What does it mean to be a person of faith?’ was the question explored by well known Christian author Margaret Silf, in a talk attended by over three hundred people...

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Eric Cantillon R.I.P.

April 5, 2011

Eric Cantillon SJ was 86 when he died on 2 April. He was a quiet Corkonian with the air of a countryman, loved by his parishioners in Staplestown where he...

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Seeing the light of the world
JESUITICA: Truth without fear or favour

March 22, 2011

A hundred years ago, Paddy Walsh was born in Rosmuc to an Irish-speaking family that frequently welcomed Padraic Pearse as a visitor. Paddy was the first Irish Jesuit missionary to...

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Forthcoming Events

March 22, 2011

Tuesday 22 March: J.U.S.T. Ballymun are hosting a talk entitled  ‘Philosophy for Beginners’. It will be held in the Ballymun Job Centre at 7.30pm to 9pm. For further information visit...

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“Empathy is cheap”

March 22, 2011

“Caring is costly, empathy is cheap”, claims Fergus O’Donoghue SJ, in his editorial in the just-launched spring edition of the Jesuit Journal Studies, ‘Making Ireland a Caring Society’. Theodore Dalrymple,...

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Lent revisited

March 22, 2011

Presbyterian minister Katherine Myers spoke recently to Pat Coyle in an interview/podcast, part of the lenten series organised jointly by the Jesuit Communciation Centre and Brian O’Leary SJ, Province Delegate...

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Talking to ‘terrorists’

March 22, 2011

Ray Helmick SJ from Boston gave the welcoming address at the Spirituality and Trauma international conference in the Europa Hotel, Belfast, 9-14 March. Elias Osmondo SJ from Kenya, Michael Bingham...

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Japanese inspiring

March 22, 2011

“It’s uplifting and beautiful to witness, as an Irishman, how the Japanese people are responding to the earthquake and tsunami disaster.” So says Donal Doyle SJ, superior of the Irish...

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