Category: News

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...

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...

A statement of the Jesuit Major Superiors of Europe

                        CEP General Assembly – A statement of the Jesuit Major Superiors of Europe October 19th, 2015  Since...

Annual Memorial Mass, 8th Nov 2015

  The Annual Memorial Mass for deceased Jesuit missionaries and volunteers will take place on Sunday 8th of November at 3pm in Milltown Park Chapel.  Our homilist for the...

Mission Month: Dare to dream of a better future

  Fr Ashley Evans SJ leads the Xavier Jesuit School project in Sisophon, Cambodia. The Jesuits have opted to establish the school in this location to make the most...