To access one of the Websites below please click on the web address coloured green.

Act to Prevent Trafficking - www.aptireland.org
APT is a faith-based group working against Trafficking in Persons in Ireland. It is linked to both the Irish Missionary Union and the Conference of Religious of Ireland  (CORI). The members first met in December 2005. They are concerned about the growing reality of the worldwide trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation.
The members of APT are people belonging to religious congregations or missionary societies. They are all volunteers who make themselves available to respond to requests from a variety of groups in Ireland to raise awareness about the issue of human trafficking.  APT welcomes collaborators and resource people who are willing to share its work on a short-term or long-term basis.

Association of Bursars of Religious of Ireland - www.lpgroup.ie
The Association of Bursars work with L&P Financial Trustees, which is an international consultancy company.  It provides services to charities, trusts and religious congregations.  L&P provide specialised advice relating to the financial, personnel, investment, legal and property aspects of administering charities and trusts.
It advises and works for congregations which have many different legal structures and a wide range of day to day activities including education, healthcare, aged care, and international development.

Conference of Religious in England and Wales - www.corew.org
The Conference of Religious seeks to be a dynamic and proactive presence of Church, particularly with those on the margins of society. It aims to unite its membership in collaborative initiatives translating gospel vision into reality, and to offer support to those in positions of leadership.

Eucharistic Congress 2012  -  Dublin, June 2012  -  www.iec2012.ie
It will form part of Church renewal in Ireland.  The theme for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress is  "The Eucharist: Communion with Christ and with one another." It is hoped that the theme will contribute to an enriched understanding of the Eucharist as true personal Communion with Jesus Christ and to a renewed understanding of the Church as an essentially Eucharistic community.

It is a week long programme of events, linking faith and culture, with a particular focus on the gathering of people of every nation, language and way of life around the table of the Lord.  See Congress Website.

Irish Missionary Union - www.imu.ie
The Irish Missionary Union is at the service of its membership in a great variety of ways. Apart from providing an invaluable secretarial service to the members at home and overseas, they also support and facilitate a great deal of mutual sharing and networking of resources and knowledge gained through experience.

International Union of Superiors General  -  www.uisg.org
UISG is a worldwide, canonically approved organization of superiors general of institutes of Catholic women religious. The purpose of UISG is to promote an understanding of religious life. Their web site provides information for UISG members, all women religious and others interested in the life and the mission of Catholic Sisters.

Irish Catholic Bishops Conference - www.catholicbishops.ie
The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference is the assembly of the Bishops of Ireland exercising together certain pastoral offices for the people.
It consists of a General Assembly and a Standing Committee together with various commissions, agencies, councils and other bodies. Day to day operations are overseen by a secretariat.

Misean Cara - www.miseancara.ie
Misean Cara works to bring about transformation through supporting missionary organisations and their partners, who are involved in promoting poverty eradication, education, health care, social justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and inter-religious collaboration.

Social Justice Ireland  -  www.socialjustice.ie
Working to build a just society where human rights are respected, human dignity is protected, human development is facilitated and the environment is respected and protected.

Towards Healing  -  www.towardshealing.ie
Towards Healing is an organisation which provides telephone counselling as well as a counselling and psychotherapy referral service for people who have suffered physical, emotional or sexual abuse when they were children, by persons working for the Catholic Church in Ireland.
It replaces the Faoiseamh Counselling Service which has been in operation since 1997, and which has provided face-to-face counselling to over 4,000 persons during that time, as well as Helpline Support to over 15000 survivors of Clerical and Religious Abuse.

Trócaire - www.trocaire.org
Working for a just world. Trócaire works with people to bring about positive and lasting changes in some of the world’s poorest places. Its programmes are carried out with partner organisations so local people drive the whole process and, in turn, their own development.

Union of the European Conferences of Major Superiors - www.ucesm.net
At the service of Religious Life in Europe:

• building good relations and solidarity
• encouraging reflection and action among the National Conferences.
• representing Religious Life in European and International organizations and events
• weaving international relations with the Conferences of Religious Institutes from other continents and with the Conferences of Superiors General.

Vocations Ireland -  www.vocationsireland.com
Vocations Ireland is an association of the Vocation Directors of the Catholic Religious Congregations in Ireland.  They work to present religious life, apostolic, missionary and contemplative, as a life choice that is one way of following Christ and bringing deeper meaning and purpose to life. Vocations Ireland offers information on religious life in all its aspects, on discernment of vocation as well as support and accompaniment for those who may be considering a call to religious life.
Director:   Sr. Eileen Linehan    Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

School Trusts

CEIST -  Catholic Education an Irish Schools Trust - www.ceist.ie
Five Catholic Religious Congregations engaged in post primary education for over three and a half centuries – Daughters of Charity, Presentation Sisters, Sisters of the Christian Retreat, Sisters of Mercy, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart – have, in the spirit of their Founders, together established CEIST – Catholic Education, an Irish Schools Trust, thus providing a new moral and legal trustee framework enabling their schools to continue to offer post-primary Catholic education into the future as a viable option and as an integral part of the Irish school system.

Le Chéile -  Schools Trust - www.lecheiletrust.ie
The Le Chéile Schools Trust comprises the schools of thirteen religious congregations. The aim of the Trust, which came into existence in September 2009, is to carry on the legal, financial and inspirational role of trusteeship. Currently it is responsible for 47 voluntary secondary schools and is the trustee in 8 Community Schools.

Edmund Rice Schools Trust - www.erst.ie
The Edmund Rice Schools Trust has responsibility for 96 former Christian Brother schools in the Republic of Ireland, at both primary and secondary level. It commenced in September 2008. Within the schools, its Charter promotes the full personal and social development of each member and seeks to establish caring Christian communities of learning and teaching, providing Catholic education in the Edmund Rice tradition.

Presentation  Brothers Schools Trust - www.presentationbrothers.com
The Presentation Brothers Schools Trust has responsibility for the trusteeship of five secondary schools and three primary schools, ensuring the provision of Catholic Education in the Edmund Rice tradition. It came into effect in September 2009.

Loreto Education Trust - www.loreto.ie/education
The Loreto Education Trust is the body responsible for 30 schools under Loreto trusteeship. Of these, sixteen are Voluntary Secondary schools and seven are Primary/Junior schools, and two in Northern Ireland are Voluntary Grammar schools. Loreto also shares trusteeship with others in five Community schools.  The Trust serves the schools through the Loreto Education Centre. Gospel values permeate the curriculum and the whole school experience.

Courses and Programmes

Hesburgh Sabbatical Programme at Catholic Theological Union is accepting applications.
www.ctu.edu
Serving God’s people through ministry is a path filled with rewards and challenges.  A Hesburgh Sabbatical at Catholic Theological Union (CTU) is the perfect way to reflect on the ministry in which you were engaged, prepare for the ministry you will be re-entering, and refresh physically and spiritually.

A Hesburgh Sabbatical is a curriculum-centered, community-based experience of holistic renewal for clergy, religious, and lay ministers.  Participants take part in a variety of learning modules, presented by CTU faculty, which focus on key areas for contemporary ministry, including liturgy and preaching, moral theology, human development, and physical fitness.  
Living and journeying together for four months in culturally-diverse, historic Hyde Park, ministers have the opportunity to relax in a residential neighbourhood along the shores of Lake Michigan.

For more information, visit www.ctu.edu, or contact Msgr. Patrick Lagges, Director, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .