Irish Jesuits

Kevin Jackson, Professor of Business Ethics and Law at Fordham University in New York City, speaks to Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications about music as a profession of contemplative journey. This was in light of his presentation at the international conference on Spirituality in Society and the Professions at Waterford Institute of Technology on 16 May 2019. He is a composer and jazz pianist...

Celeste Snowber, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, speaks to Pat Coyle about the role of the body as central to how people live, move, breathe, question, and uncover passion and voice. This was in light of her performative presentation on 'Body, Spirituality and Passion: Embodied Ways of Inquiry in Vocation' at the international confer...

Ralph Hood, Professor of Psychology and distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), spoke to Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications after his presentation on Mysticism and the Relationship between Religion and Spirituality. He was speaking at the international conference on Spirituality in Society and the Professions, which took place in the Wate...

David Coghlan is a Jesuit and leading academic in the field of 'action research', lecturing in business studied in Trinity College Dublin. He speaks to Pat Coyle about the inseparability of his spirituality and his work as an scholar. He defines spirituality simply as connecting with the transcendent. "I connect with a God who loves me, knows me and has sent me into the world for a purpose and I'm...

Piaras Jackson SJ, director of Manresa Jesuit Centre of Spirituality in Dublin, speaks to Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications about World Labyrinth Day on Saturday, 4 May 2019. He describes the centre’s own labyrinth next to the coastline, among mature trees and in grassland that becomes a meadow in the summer. He also gives a brief history of labyrinths and points to their deeper spiritual m...

As Good Friday approaches, spiritual director Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications speaks to Miriam Gormally of Soulwaves Radio about what she perceives to be the serious inadequacies of the current and prevailing atonement theory linked to Jesus' death on the cross. And she offers a different interpretation of it regarding His death based on her readings of various theologians and biblical sc...

Paddy Greene SJ, conducts workshops on dream work and says that all dreams come to us as gifts from God in the service of healing and wholeness. At present, Paddy is training a group of his graduate pupils on how to conduct the type of workshops he gives himself. At the most recent training day he spoke about dreams and visions (waking dreams) in the old and new testaments. Paddy had an interestin...

The first ever international conference on 'Spirituality in Society and the Professions' will take place in the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), May 16-18, 2019 in Waterford, Ireland. Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, talks with the organisers Dr Michael O Sullivan SJ and Dr Bernadette Flannigan. They talk of the contributors from a wide variety of professions and the arts, who wil...

'The hero' was the title of a workshop led recently by education consultant David Tuohy SJ for chaplains and people who work with youth in Jesuit schools. David proposed 'the heroic journey' as a model of personal development, one that could provide both young people and their mentors with a positive and clear narrative. The workshop was part of a conference, held in Manresa, Spain, addressing the...

Irish Jesuit Edmond Grace has recorded his comic cycle of poetry in four parts entitled Mad Messiah in a variety of accents that lend another layer of meaning to his richly symbolic verse. It's poetry like you've never heard before – a funny, provocative, moving, clever commentary on modern life and the ancient quest to understand the meaning of God, particularly as revealed in the paradoxical fig...

Irish Jesuit Edmond Grace has recorded his comic cycle of poetry in four parts entitled Mad Messiah. It's poetry like you've never heard before – a funny, provocative, moving, clever commentary on modern life and the ancient quest to understand the meaning of God, particularly as revealed in the paradoxical figure of Jesus Christ, the 'mad messiah'.

Irish Jesuit Edmond Grace has recorded his comic cycle of poetry in four parts entitled Mad Messiah in a variety of accents that lend another layer of meaning to his richly symbolic verse. It's poetry like you've never heard before – a funny, provocative, moving, clever commentary on modern life and the ancient quest to understand the meaning of God, particularly as revealed in the paradoxical fig...

Irish Jesuit Edmond Grace reads his comic cycle of poetry entitled Mad Messiah in a variety of accents that lend another layer of meaning to his richly symbolic verse. It's poetry like you've never heard before – a funny, provocative, moving, clever commentary on modern life and the ancient quest to understand the meaning of God, particularly as revealed in the paradoxical figure of Jesus Christ.

Irish Jesuit theologian Gerry O'Hanlon SJ has been reflecting on the recent extraordinary summit on clerical sexual abuse convened by Pope Francis in Rome, and attended by Cardinals and Bishops from all over the world. In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications he welcomes the fact that a 'culture of denial' around the extent and impact of abuse was openly challenged at the su...

Brian Grogan SJ, author and facilitator on communal discernment, spoke with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications about his recent trip to Rome. He is charged with writing a report on the decision making process in Rome, that resulted in Father General Arturo Sosa’s four Universal Apostolic Preferences for the Society of Jesus.

David Tuohy is a Jesuit and an Ecumenical Canon in the Church of Ireland. In  2015  he was asked my Archbishop Jackson to take part in his 'Come and See' project. This involved facilitating parishioners in Dublin and Glendalough in a 'bottom up' project, de-clericalising the concept of discipleship. Today he has co-authored a book about his experience and he talks to Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Comm...

Dr Michael O'Sullivan is a Jesuit and author of the book 'How Roman Catholic Theology Can Transform Male Violence against Women.' His workis described as “groundbreaking”, by Professor Linda Hogan of Trinity College Dublin. In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, Michael says that violence against women is a world-wide phenomenon, and that Christian and Catholic teaching m...

Brian Grogan SJ, who has published 'Pedro Arrupe SJ: Mystic with Open Eyes' with Messenger Publications, spoke to Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications about the life of the former Father General whose case for beatification has recently been opened. He also described his "privileged" encounters with him.

Jim Corkery SJ, Professor of Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, spoke to Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications on the recent news that the case for beatification and canonisation of former Father General Pedro Arrupe has been opened. Fr Corkery also spoke about Pope Francis's involvement in the case as significant for the Church and the Society of Jesus.

Former Irish Jesuit Provincial John Dardis now works at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome. In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications he outlines the four priories of the leader of the Jesuits, Fr Aruro Sosa, that will guide their work into the future.

Jim Corkery is a Jesuit theologian who teaches in the Gregorian University in Rome. He is also a member of the Centre for the Protection of Minors there. In this interview he speaks with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, he argues that there needs to be a re- examination of the theory of salvation, in the light of the experience of  survivors of abuse who did not sin but were sinned agains...

John Henry Newman was a towering, intellectual and controversial figure throughout the 19th century. Raised as an evangelical protestant, he converted to Catholicism at the age of 44. Soon he will be declared a saint. Historian Dr Dermot Roantree, tells Pat Coyle, of Irish Jesuit Communications, why.

Italian Paolo Beltrame is a second year Jesuit novice of the Northwest European novitiate in Birmingham, UK. He spoke to Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications on a recent visit to Ireland about his life as an astrophysicist and his strong faith in God. Paolo, who researched dark matter for 15 years, found that spirituality and religion opened the door to his unanswered questions of the universe...

Will Robbins is a Gonzaga student who has set up a business selling hoodies to raise money to build a secondary school in Zambia.  In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications the Irish student talks about how a chance encounter, just as he was about to return home, turned him into a social entrepreneur (with a little help for his friends).

The 35th Annual Belvedere College Sleep-Out will take place on 22-24 December 2018 on Dublin’s O’Connell street and College Green. Some of the students involved met with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications. Whatever money they raise will be divided between the Peter McVerry Trust, Focus Ireland and Home Again.