News
Pontificating
March 25, 2013
Gonzaga alumnus Aidan Mathews, now an RTÉ producer and a poet, dramatist and novelist, sees the new Pope to be called to be more – not less – ordinary than...
Read moreCalled to heal a wounded Church
March 25, 2013
An image that sums up both the task awaiting Pope Francis and his manner of tackling that task is an amazing painting, from around 1700, by the German artist Johann...
Read moreFr Liam McKenna dies at 91
March 8, 2013
Fr Liam McKenna died on 2 March in Cherryfield, having moved there from his community in Gardiner Street five days earlier. He was 91, but was alert and engaged to...
Read moreWhose history is it anyway?
March 8, 2013
Can we trust our history? Who gets to tell the story? Whose version becomes the accepted wisdom? Can we do justice to all involved? Just some of the questions explored...
Read moreA Pope with Irish roots?
March 8, 2013
Michael Paul Gallagher SJ was a guest on the Pat Kenny radio show on RTE 1, last Thursday 28 February, along with the BBC's David Willey. Both men were speaking...
Read moreChristianity not a European religion
March 8, 2013
Jesus was Asian and we need to remember that Christianity is not a European religion it's a world religion. And it’s appropriate that people are able to express their faith...
Read moreThe election of Michelle Bachelet
March 6, 2013
In this interview for 3R Productions with Pat Coyle, Michael O’Sullivan looks back over his days as a Jesuit priest in Pinochet’s Chile and expresses his delight at the recent...
Read moreRe-thinking the papacy
February 21, 2013
"We have become accustomed to speak of the 'Supreme Pontiff', of a 'monarchical-style' papacy, of Roman ‘hands-on’ intervention world-wide. But it was not always so and need not be so."...
Read moreOn the edge of Syria
February 21, 2013
Fr. Gerard Clarke is an Irish Jesuit missioned as a member of a JRS rapid response team based at International Office in Rome. There are three team members: Francesca, the...
Read moreAnother Fr Browne gem
February 21, 2013
Fr Brownes's Kerry is the latest offering of Eddie O'Donnell, the Jesuit who discovered the 40.000 negatives of photos taken by the now famous Irish Jesuit photographer, throughout his life....
Read more