Spirituality

Cathal’s homecoming

July 7, 2009

Carndonagh’s imposing parish church was en fete for the last weekend in July. The parish’s new priest, Cathal Doherty SJ, was welcomed by a banner stretched across the gates. Bunting and...

Cathal the priest

June 30, 2009

They came from North, South, East and West, led by an Inishowen bus full of Cathal’s kith and kin, to celebrate Cathal Doherty’s ordination to the priesthood in Gardiner Street....

Sound sense

June 30, 2009

For the last two years a Czech-born sound artist has been working with the children of St Declan’s school, taking each class for half an hour a week. “I’m not...

Covering the country

June 30, 2009

June, the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart, proved the continuing vitality of the Messenger. People wonder what makes the Messenger the most widely read religious magazine in Ireland, with...

JESUITICA: Moon-gazers

June 30, 2009

“That orbèd maiden with white fire laden, whom mortals call the Moon” has at least 35 craters named after Jesuit astronomers. And one of the earliest maps of the moon’s...

Short notices and forthcoming events

June 30, 2009

The denizens of Cherryfield Lodge made full use of the sunny and cloudless weather on Tuesday 23 June. On an outing to Wicklow they took inboth the Jesuit holiday house...

The Status for the year ahead

June 23, 2009

The ‘Status’ for the Irish Jesuit Province was posted this week. It is the list of assignments for Jesuits for the coming year. Did it connote a centrifugal or a...

The US-based Catholic network, Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), will broadcast an interview with Fr Barney McGuckian, S.J., spiritual director of the Pioneer Association on Thursday 25 June at 1.00am Irish...

Milltown Summer School

June 23, 2009

The focus of the Ignatian Summer School at the Milltown Institute was on Social Discernment. The issue was this: Imagine you’re at a meeting where you may be the only person concerned...

Companions on the journey

June 23, 2009

Jesuits and their colleagues who are leaving for a 9-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land next Monday had a Mass in Gardiner St on Sunday 21 June in preparation. Donal Neary...

Jesuits for Climate Justice in Bonn

June 4, 2026 - Follow the Jesuits for climate justice at SB64 in Germany through daily prayers, newsletters, and updates

Not for the faint-hearted!

June 3, 2026 - An appeal for refugees in a Jesuit church in Beirut, and tackling the negative stereotyping of asylum seekers - stories from Jesuit colleagues in media training in the Curia.

Warmly welcomed in Warsaw

June 3, 2026 - A warm welcome was extended by Polish Jesuits and colleagues to attendees of the annual meeting of Jesuit communications workers across Europe.