Featured Podcasts
What exactly is ‘spiritual direction?’
October 12, 2021
In this podcast series author and lecturer on Ignatian Spirituality, Brian O'Leary SJ, answers simply and clearly some of the questions asked about the practice of 'spiritual direction'
Read more25th anniversary of Henri Nouwen’s death
September 20, 2021
Lecturer Dr Riaan van der Merwe spoke to Pat Coyle on how the renowned writer's encounter with people with developmental disabilities changed his life and theology forever
Read moreSeamus Heaney: Poet and friend
August 25, 2021
On the eight anniversary of his death, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney is remembered in an archived interview with his friend and Irish Jesuit Fr Brendan Duddy
Read moreNew research unit for SpIRE/WIT
August 5, 2021
Michael O'Sullivan SJ, Director of SpIRE, discusses the latest developments in the spirituality institute of research and education
Read more‘Feed the Beast’
July 14, 2021
Poet and theologian Pádraig O'Tuama speaks to Pat Coyle about his experience of being Christian, gay and exorcised
Read moreA role model for health workers and the young
June 18, 2021
St Aloysius Gonzaga's feast day in on 21 June. In a 2014 interview Barney McGuckian SJ tells Pat Coyle what makes St Aloysius such an extraordinary saint and role model
Read moreDestroying our ecosystem is sinful
February 2, 2021
Ireland is the worst of 57 countries for its carbon emissions. Dr Kevin Hargaden of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice says this is structural sin
Read moreFaith and country – President Biden’s election
January 27, 2021
Donal Godfrey SJ is a university chaplain in the USA. He gives his unique take on recent events there, and the Jesuit connections to President Biden
Read moreMisogyny and the Mother and Baby homes
January 26, 2021
Jesuit theologian Dr Gerry O'Hanlon believes there are important lessons to be learnt from the recent Mother and Baby Homes report
Read more‘We can breathe again’
November 10, 2020
Donal Godfrey SJ speaks from the United States about a number of issues arising from the 2020 election including the role played by religious groupings
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