Dermot Roantree

Dermot Roantree is content editor with Irish Jesuit Communications. He has a doctorate in Modern History and many years of teaching and of e-learning projects behind him. He is married with two children.
Prayer for health care workers

April 6, 2022

In the Pope Video for April, Pope Francis appeals for prayers for health care workers, especially in poorer countries, who serve the sick and the elderly.

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Illumination in dark times

April 6, 2022

Catholic Social Thought can provide a clear light in dark times, according to Professor Anna Rowlands in the inaugural annual lecture of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.

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Celebrating the saints

March 23, 2022

Jesuits and partners around the world celebrated the 400th anniversary of the canonisations of St Ignatius and Francis Xavier, on 12 March.

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Belvedere/JRS Campaign for Ukraine

March 15, 2022

Belvedere College SJ is inviting support for the Belvedere/JRS Campaign for Ukraine, set up by the school.

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Blessed John Sullivan

March 14, 2022

On the night of February 19th, 1933, Fr John Sullivan SJ breathed his last in St Vincent’s Nursing Home, Dublin. Thirty-seven years earlier he had converted to Catholicism, and four...

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Praying with hope

March 8, 2022

'Hope and the nearness of God' is the theme of the Lenten Sacred Space retreat by Teresa White OFM.

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Studies: The courage to speak freely

March 8, 2022

The Spring 2022 issue of 'Studies', the Irish Jesuit quarterly journal, is centered on the theme of speaking out bravely.

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Milltown staff helping Ukraine

March 5, 2022

Staff of Milltown Park Jesuit Community, have been collecting goods to send to Ukrainian refugees.

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Pope Video: Religious discrimination and persecution

January 7, 2022

In the Pope Video for January, Francis asks "How is it possible that many religious minorities suffer discrimination or persecution?"

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COVID-19, law and human rights

December 8, 2021

The theme which dominates the Winter 2021 issue of 'Studies' is the legal and human rights dimensions of the pandemic in Ireland.

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