Irish Jesuits

This meditation by Gavin Thomas Murphy involves paying attention to how we are in our mind and body, and goes further into the experience of our heart. An opportunity to turn to our source of compassion with imagery, energy and love. Also with light instrumental music to accompany to us.

In this final part of his interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, Jesuit theologian Jim Corkery sums up the late Pope Beneditct XV1's legacy. He assesses his 'conservatism' regarding the role of women in the Church and other controversial issues. Professor Corkery also gives his initial reaction to Archbishop Georg Ganswein's book on the late Pope (which was just about to be publi...

One of the late Pope Benedict XV1's most controversial reforms was that of English in the liturgy. In this, part three of an interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications on the legacy of Pope Benedict XV1, Irish Jesuit theologian Jim Corkery discusses this particular liturgical reform and its fallout. He also discusses the mellowing of Benedict in older age, and the significance of his...

"Your clothes are stained with our blood." This was the response of a Bangladeshi garment factory worker to Dr Kevin Hargaden of the Irish Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. He was at an international conference in Dhaka that was exploring the concept of a just wage in Bangladesh, what it might look like how it might be received. The interdisciplinary and interfaith conference was attended by ac...

"The fifty-eight most powerful words in the world." is how Richard Leonard SJ describes the Lord's Prayer, in his latest book 'The Law of Love.' Speaking with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications he explains the importance of the prayer by exploring such phrases as 'give us this day our daily bread,' and the opening world 'father'. He explains the importance of good translation and cites the p...

Jim Corkery SJ is a theology professor at the Jesuit Gregorian University in Rome. His Ph. D. thesis concerned the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, the recently deceased Pope Benedict XV1. In this, part two of an extended interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, he assesses how Joseph Ratzinger handled the clerical sexual abuse allegations in the Catholic church both in his role as Pr...

Theologian Professor Jim Corkery SJ assesses the theological legacy. of the recently deceased Pope Benedict XV1. In this zoom interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications he speaks about his own doctoral thesis on Ratzinger's theology. Corkery's word focussed on Ratzinger's criticism of liberation theology, including the writings of Leonardo Boff, and Gustavo Gutiérrez.

The age group with the largest number of homeless people in it is 0-4 years. The officially registered number of homeless people is 11, 4000. The real figure is around 100,000. Three-quarters of a million Irish people are living in places they do not want to live and that they cannot call home. So says veteran homlessness campaigner Peter McVerry SJ in this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit...

Hundreds of Belvedere College SJ students are hoping to help the homeless in Ireland this year with a record-breaking annual SleepOut challenge. Some of them will be fasting and sleeping out at the GPO and in College Green Dublin from 22-24 December 2022 inclusive and all the while rattling the buckets to collect money for charities that work with the homeless. Others have already spent some freez...

Two Belvedere College SJ alumni feature in a new book on faith and sport. All-Ireland football medal winner Ger Brennan and former Meath football manager Sean Boylan were interviewed by Gerard Gallagher for his book 'Faith in Search of Greater Glory in Sport', The title is a play on the Jesuit motto 'Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications Ger talks t...

'The Parish as Oasis: An Introduction to Practical Environmental Care' is the intriguing title of a book by Drs Ciara Murphy (pictured above) and Kevin Hargaden of the Irish Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, they explain the sense in which a parish can become an 'oasis' using a striking example of how churches are conceived and bu...

Sunny Jacobs SJ is an Indian Jesuit based now in Galway with the Jesuit community there. He works with the Educate Magis team in the city. In this second part of his interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, he explains the work of the Educate Magis team both online globally, and in person with the staff and students of Jesuit schools in Ireland.

Indian Jesuit Sunny Jacob has taken up a post working with the Jesuits in Galway. He stays with the Jesuit community there and works in the parish and schools - through Educate Magis. In this first of a two-part interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, the Kerala-born Jesuit talks about his native province in India and his early days with the Jesuits. He also talks about coming to...

Richard Leonard SJ puts religious language through the wringer in his latest book 'The Law of Love'. In this latest in a series of interviews about the book with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, he turns his attention to the word 'sin'. He says it is at best a meaningless word for many people today, especially younger people. And at worst it's a term, along with other terms such as 'guilt...

Dr Austen Ivereigh was the keynote speaker at the launch of the Belfast Jesuit Spirituality Centre. Listen to his talk on “A New Imagination of the Possible: Pope Francis and the Gift of ‘Overflow’.

Dr Austen Ivereigh, journalist and papal biographer, was one of the people who took part in the collation of the global synod document 'Enlarge the Space of Your Tent', launched by Pope Francis in Rome on Thursday 27 October In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, Austen Ivereigh talks about the content of the document and the communal discernment process that those presen...

Richard Leonard SJ's encounters with a supreme court judge and a secular Jew led him to review the ten commandments for his latest book 'The Law of Love'. In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, he outlines the thinking of Appleyard in an article the latter wrote (with more than a nod to Vatican 11) entitled 'The Sinai of the Times'. And he recounts a challenging head-to-h...

In this third and final part of his summer interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, theologian Dr Gerry Whelan SJ explains how the classicists hold that truth is objective and unchanging whilst the relativists say it is historically and culturally based. On this basis 'n'ere the twain shall meet.' He also outlines his vision of how Jesuit philosopher Bernard Lonergan's thinking con...

Irish Jesuit Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ is Bishop of the diocese of Raphoe, where the small village of Creeslough is situated in the county of Donegal. He has been with the people there on foot of the devastating explosion that has taken the lives of ten local people whose ages range from five to fifty-nine. A mother and son, and father and daughter lost their lives in the accidental explosion on Fr...

"Believe it or not Jesus hardly ever spoke about sex or sexual sins." So says Richard Leonard SJ in this latest part of an extended interview on his new book The Law of Love. Speaking with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications he discusses how Christianity became unbalanced in its emphasis on sin and sexuality. He talks also about the Church's evolving attitude on homosexuality and Pope Francis...

First cut curls: Conor Harper SJ discusses the only first class relic of Fr. Sullivan

Fr. Sullivan’s funeral: Conor Harper SJ reads through Obituary notices describing the funeral and various attendees

Medical report: A letter from Dr. Francis Cruise to Fr. Keating regarding Fr. Sullivan’s entry into Society of Jesus

The Clongowes Cross: Conor Harper SJ tells us about Fr. Sullivan’s other crucifix

Inside the archive: Vice Postulator Conor Harper SJ on the material in the John Sullivan archive