Irish Men Behind the Missions : Fr. Donal Doyle SJ
‘Going to the Far East’ was an expression used by many missionaries in the past to mean they were going to China and South East Asia. In this new...
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Hands up at Loyola Jesuit Secondary School!
After several years of an empty plot and then three years of busy construction work, Loyola Jesuit Secondary School (LJSS) moved from dream to reality last year. And...
World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Sunday 17th January
The theme chosen by Pope Francis for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2016 is “Migrants and Refugees Challenge Us. The Response of the Gospel of Mercy.”...
COP21. Success and Disappointments
Source: Photograph by Patrick Kovarik / Afp / Getty The Paris Agreement: successes, disappointments, and the road ahead In early December, Catherine Devitt, environmental justice officer with the Jesuit...
Irish Men behind the Missions: Fr Gerry Keane SJ
“Christ on a bike!”—or, a priest on a Honda 50—was rare in 1970’s Ireland, well in Tipperary anyway. I suppose it was summer 1974 when Uncle Gerard, as...
Encounters with God in Japan
Fr Donal Doyle SJ has lived and worked in Japan for over 50 years. He is a recipient of this year’s Business and Education Presidential Distinguished Services Awards that...
Irish teachers in Uganda
In accompaniment and solidarity Last October, during the school mid-term break, volunteer representatives from the five Jesuit colleges in Ireland took part in a formation visit to Uganda....
Learning to Make a Living and a Difference
After several years of an empty plot and then three years of busy construction work, Loyola Jesuit Secondary School (LJSS) has finally moved from dream to reality! In...
Transforming our world: The Sustainable Development Goals
Catherine Devitt is the newly appointed Environmental Justice Officer in the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. Here she lays out the aims of the Sustainable Development Goals...
The Land of the Silent
At the annual Memorial Mass for deceased missionaries in November, Fr Joe Keaney SJ knew that a long homily wouldn’t work for a Dublin congregation as it does...
Beauty and brutality: the confounding contradictions of South Sudan
Darkness falls early in South Sudan. When the unspeakably bright sun sleeps, there isn’t much to illuminate the hot air. Just fireflies, the headlights of occasional military trucks,...
Irish Men behind the Missions
Every year on a Sunday afternoon in November, the chapel at Milltown Park in Dublin glows in candlelight and resonates with the sound of music and singing. Families, friends...