Spirituality

Fr Tom O’Neill SJ

September 8, 2009

Fr Tom O’Neill (centre in photo), who died on 30 July, had spent all his priestly life in the Far East, including ten years in Hong Kong and Manila, and...

Alumni assemble

September 8, 2009

Fr General made his second visit to Africa in mid-July to attend the Seventh World Congress of Jesuit Alumni/ae, which took place in Bujumbura, Burundi. WUJA holds a Congress every...

Remembering Ricci

September 8, 2009

Over 300 years ago, the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci tried to present the Christian Gospel in a way that could make sense to Chinese mandarins, building on the Confucianism which...

JESUITICA: an unstoppable Jesuit

September 8, 2009

The name Marquette crops up a lot in the Mid-West of USA, carried by a city on Lake Superior, a County around it, and a Jesuit University in Milwaukee. It...

In Birmingham on 5 September, the four provincials (Ireland, Britain, Netherlands, N.Belgium) met for the first time with Tom Layden, the new Delegate for Interprovincial cooperation and planning, and ‘launched’ him....

Forthcoming events

September 8, 2009

Neutrality: Irish Experience, European Experience, edited by Iain Atack & Sean McCrum, will be launched by Noel Dorr (former Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs), Karen Devine (IRCHSS...

The General is coming

September 1, 2009

The new (well, not really new – he was elected in January 2008) Jesuit General, Fr Adolfo Nicolas, a cheerful and visionary Spaniard, will spend the weekend of 11-14 September...

Thunder clouds over Lomarati

September 1, 2009

Writing from the Sudan in June, Richard O’Dwyer SJ described his first visit to Lomarati, a remote mountain location to which he had been invited to say Mass. He was...

Goodbyes at Religious News Network

September 1, 2009

There were tears at a splendid buffet lunch in Leeson Street on 28 August, when a large group gathered to say goodbye to two of the (3-person) Religious News Network...

JESUITICA: Parliamentary inspiration

September 1, 2009

Damien Burke, our archivist, observed this verse on the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh: What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left,...

The Pope and the President

April 20, 2026 - Fr. Donal Godfrey SJ, reflects on the recent remarks of Pope Leo XIV and the response to them from Donald Trump and his administration.

‘A privilege to be part of it’

April 15, 2026 - The celebratory event to mark the historic Silver Jubilee of postgraduate studies in Applied Spirituality was a special day for all involved.

An attitude of gratitude

April 14, 2026 - Gratitude: The solution to worry, Kierkegaard claimed, was to make a leap of faith and put our trust in God’s enduring love.

April Messenger: Hope, renewal and growth

April 13, 2026 - In these uncertain times, the April Messenger offers rest and reflection, with themes of hope, renewal, gratitude and transformation in everyday life.