David Coghlan SJ, Professor of Business Organosation Development at Trinity College Dublin, speaks to the Irish Province Assembly on the six questions central to change..
Brian O'Leary SJ is the Irish Jesuit Province Co-Ordinator for Ecumenism. Here he talks to Pat Coyle about Church Unity Week 2012, the Pope's commitment to ecumenism, and a major shift in the ecumenical landscape.
When Guy Consolmango SJ the Vatican astronomer, met with Pat Coyle of the Jesuit Communication Centre, he talked about lots more than star gazing. The relationship between religion and science, the beauty of the laws of science, angels, the nature of truth, evil, orginal sin, the immensity of God, the wonder of the cosmos, aliens (our ‘cousins’) and why Richard Dawkins is right (in a very limited way!) were all part of the conversation.
In his latest book, New Reflections on Advent, Donal Neary SJ, Parish Priest of Gardiner Street Church, takes the Gospel readings for the season of Advent and uses them as a starting point for prayers and reflections during Advent.
Religious obedience, Fr Frank Browne SJ was fond of noting, can save your life. He would know, having been ordered off the Titanic by his Provincial. His collection of photographs of the great liner, discovered by Fr Eddie O'Donnell among a collection of more than 40,000 negatives, are an extraordinary record, consulted even by James Cameron for the making of the Titanic movie. To mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, Eddie talks to Pat Coyle.
Our experience of God may be mediated by many different forms: music, art, liturgy, poetry, nature, dreams. So says Sr Janet Ruffing (Professor of Practice of Spirituality and Ministerial Leadership at Yale University) in this interview with Pat Coyle after she delivered the inaugural memorial lecture for the late William Johnston SJ in All Hallows in October 2011.
Michael Paul Gallagher SJ talks to Pat Coyle about the role of the imagination in spirituality. He is due to give a public lecture on 'Imagination: a spiritual anchor for today' in Gardiner Street Church on Tuesday, 30 August, at 7.30pm. Go to Gardiner Street website for details.
AMA Samy is a Jesuit priest and Zen Buddhist teacher who says he stands between Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity and is true to Christ, true to Zen and true to the human heart-mind. He spends several months abroad every year, mostly in Europe, teaching and assisting his students. In the summer of 2011 he visited Ireland and spoke to Pat Coyle of the Jesuit Communication Centre about his vision of the 'mystery' we call God.
