World War 1
Blessed Rupert Mayer
October 26, 2016
Known as the ‘Apostle of Munich’, Blessed Rupert Mayer SJ, survived two world wars – the first as chaplain-in-service of those who fought and died, and the second as a...
Read moreFaith at the front
May 24, 2016
Roisin Duffy's RTE TV documentary on WWI chaplain Fr Frank Browne SJ, was recently screened in the Irish Embassy in London.
Read moreIrish Jesuit chaplains in the First World War
December 15, 2014
At a time of great turmoil at home in Ireland, thirty-two Irish Jesuits signed up to minister to Catholic soldiers on the European battlefields of the First World War. Damien...
Read moreRemembering the war dead
October 31, 2014
At September’s end a number of Jesuits along with students and staff of Clongowes College, visited Flanders and the Somme. There they commemorated the contribution of former Clongowes’ students and...
Read moreJesuit Chaplains of World War I
October 3, 2014
Irish Jesuit Chaplains in the First World War, (Messenger Publications) edited by Damien Burke, assistant archivist to the Jesuit Province, was launched on Friday 17 September, by Roisin Duffy of...
Read moreFr Browne’s forgotten war
August 29, 2014
The famed photographer of the Titanic and Irish man Fr Frank Browne SJ was the subject of a documentary broadcast on RTÉ Television on Wednesday 30 July. It coincided with...
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