Spirituality

Short notices

May 19, 2009

It is 35 years since Mungret closed. On 16 May some sixty alumni gathered for a reunion dinner with five Jesuits who had worked in the college as boys or...

Easter in Sudan

May 12, 2009

Richard O’Dwyer SJ in South Sudan is still registering first impressions with the freshness of a new arrival. Here is his Easter message: “Just after I had shaken the last...

JESUITICA: Early ecumenism

May 12, 2009

In 1687 a multi-denominational Jesuit school in Edinburgh described its ethos: “There shall be all freedom for everyone to practise what Religion he shall please. None shall upbraid or reproach...

Short notices

May 12, 2009

On Monday May 11, Colaiste Iognaid students in Galway were privileged to hear in person one of the few existing Holocaust survivors, Tomas Reichental, who is currently living in Ireland....

Forthcoming events

May 12, 2009

The 50th International Eucharistic Congress will be held in Dublin in 2012. Fr Kevin Doran of Glendalough will look after the organisation. Slí Eile will run an introduction to Ignatian...

Guiney in Asia

May 5, 2009

John Guiney SJ (centre in photo), just back from Asia, saw the impact of the Irish Jesuits in the East from Japan to Hong Kong, Cambodia and Signapore as expressed by...

In Thurles the disciples were first called Jesuits

May 5, 2009

The late Archbishop Tom Morris loved showing his cathedral in Thurles to visiting Jesuits because of its links with the Society. Kevin Laheen SJ remembers one such meeting, when Tom...

In Leinster’s Heineken Cup semi-final win over Munster, Clongownian Gordon D’Arcy, pictured here with the ball, scored Leinster’s opening try, and Belvederian Cian Healy contributed mightily in the front row....

Welcoming into the Church

May 5, 2009

At the Easter vigil Mass in Gardiner Street church this year, Dusan Sabol, a UCD student from Slovakia, was fully received into the Catholic Church, after a few years of...

JESUITICA: Clerical dress

May 5, 2009

Matteo Ricci SJ, a very innovative Jesuit missionary who lived in China from 1582 until his death in 1610, described Jesuit dress at the court of the Ming Emperor: “We have let our beards...

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.