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“For Hearts and Minds to Navigate the Challenge”. Apply to the European Leadership Programme (ELP)
The ELP is a 5-month long formation for trainees or young professionals living and working in Brussels. Over the course of the 5 months (March – July 2022), Fellows have the opportunity to learn from leaders and meet top decision-makers, expand their professional network, join discernment...
Current and future challenges of the faculties of theology and philosophy in Europe and Lebanon
On the 20th and 21st of January, the deans and delegates from 16 Kircher Network's faculties of Theology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies gathered online for their annual meeting, which was chaired by the President of the Kircher Network, Philip Geister, S.J. The President of the JCEP, Franck...
Christian Philosophy and Its Challenges: International Conference and Call for Papers
“We do not need Christian philosophy. We need Christians making good philosophy.” This controversial paraphrase of Cardinal Newman could serve as the point of departure for this forthcoming conference organized by the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow. Conference Dates: September 20–22,...
Four Dreams Jesuit Film Contest: An opportunity of Jesuit higher education institutions around the world
To commemorate the Ignatian Year, the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) and the General Curia in Rome have launched the Film Contest. It offers an opportunity for students to share their creativity. In a short film, the participants have to present a person(s) and the...
Inter-Institutional Online Course Project: Launching of the pilot for the Spring Semester
We are glad to announce the launching of the second phase of the pilot project. The Project Steering Committee has started to collect the information on the online courses the schools of theology, philosophy and religious studies will offer for the Spring semester, 2022. The Project seeks to...
Discernment and Delegation for good University Governance
The Rector of Comillas, Enrique Sanz, SJ, convened the university's governing team and the directors and deans in a discernment session on university governance. The meeting began with a workshop on Jesuit governance given by Daniel Villanueva, SJ., who highlighted the importance of promoting...
IV General Assembly of the Kircher Network: Reporting on the developments and planning the Mid-Term Strategic Agenda
The Presidents and Deans and the President of the Jesuit Conference of European Provincials, Franck Jannin SJ., gathered virtually to discuss the most critical issues for the development of the Network. The Assembly discussed the Annual Report presented by Philip Geister SJ., and Susana Di...
Upcoming Meeting of the Deans of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies
The Deans will meet online on the mornings of the 20th and 21st of January, 2022.
The Loyola Institute and Trinity College Dublin signed an MOU
Trinity College Dublin and the Loyola Institute Trust and Company have signed a revised Memorandum of Understanding concerning the functioning of the Loyola Institute at Trinity College. The Loyola Institute has been part of Trinity since 2012, and the new MOU provides the formal framework...
HEST – New Online Graduate Course on the Theology of Christian-Muslim Dialogue
The Kircher Network is glad to announce the launching of the pilot phase of this new common Course. Following the request of the deans of theology, philosophy and religious studies, the coordinators of the HEST's cluster on Christian-Muslim Relations, Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Villagrán, SJ., Prof. Dr....
Beatification of Fr Rutilio Grande SJ., a former student of Lumen Vitae
Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of the Servants of God Rutilio Grande García, a Jesuit priest, and his two lay companions, who were killed in hatred of the faith in El Salvador on March 12, 1977. Murdered before the start of the Salvadoran civil war, Father Grande, a close friend of...
New Secretary for Higher Education of the Society of Jesus assumed office
The Kircher Network congratulates and welcomes Fr Joseph Christie, SJ, for being appointed Secretary for Higher Education of the Society of Jesus and Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU). We are very grateful to Fr Michael J. Garanzini,...
HEST new group on Secularization in Europe
The celebration of the first online meeting on last September 16 marked the launch of this new research group of the Kircher Network's HEST programme. This HEST cluster was established as part of the second phase of the programme. It will seek to develop research on the phenomenon of...
Launching of the Kircher Inter-Institutional Online Courses Project
We are glad to announce the pilot phase of the Inter-Institutional Online Courses Project for the Fall Semester 2021-2022. The Inter-Institutional Online Courses Project allows students from the Kircher Network to enrol in online courses on Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies offered by...
Colloquium of the HEST cluster on Christian and Muslim Dialogue and Third Theological Symposium
From 9 to 13 July, delegates from eight universities and Faculties of Theology of the Kircher Network met in Warsaw – Falenica for the III Theological Symposium and the Colloquium of the HEST Cluster on Christian and Muslim Relation. The themes of the Theological Symposium were “The Trinity and...
Center Sèvres is Just a Click Away
To expand access to its training courses, the Center Sèvres now offers specific courses using different online formats: Complete distance learning: Cycle Believe & Understand Laudato Si': This new training course on the challenges of ecological transition in the dynamics of Laudato Si ' can...
Celebrating the Ignatian Year
Deusto University´s Ignatian Year Website Deusto University has created a fantastic Web Page to celebrate the Ignatian Year. Among the features offered by the site, readers can find a video synthesizing and commemorating St. Ignatius's spiritual experience and a diagram of the different...
Celebrating the Ignatian Year at the Jesuit University Ignatianum – Krakow
There will also be additional features, such as a Jubilee tribute of professor emeritus Stanislaw Ziemianski SJ., in October 2021, several short movies about St. Ignatius life published on FB (starting on May 2021), a New Ignatianum University Catalogue for the Jubilee Year, the production of a...