Jesuit Communication Centre launched a new-look, rebuilt website, www.jesuit.ie last week, in time for the visit of Fr General Adolfo Nicolás. The new website acted as a showcase for news stories and photos during the visit and facilitated an immediate ‘real time’ response to the visit.
Full details and impressions about the visit are available via the website and on blog, Twitter and YouTube.
The new site is designed as a gateway for all Irish Jesuit websites, giving visitors a clear view of the many apostolic works in the Province, and it incorporates all the Province news on www.amdg.ie.
It also has links to Jesuit accounts on social networking sites such as Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.
This is the tenth website built by the Jesuit Communication Centre over the past few years.
The others include Jesuit Refugee Service, Manresa, Jesuit Missions and Slí Eile.
Another international website has been set up to profile the wide range of Jesuit social ministries around the world. Jesuits and partners in mission can use the new site, http://www.jesuitsocialapostolate.org/, to explore the range of social action, analysis and advocacy activities around the world.
The site uses data from the Universal Catalogue of the Social Apostolate, and features an interactive map highlighting ministries at work in each country.
The site also includes blogging and calendar features for registered users, and an easy link for authorised updates, revisions and new additions.
Recently released statistics show a slight decline in the number of Jesuits worldwide.
The data for the last year shows the total number of Jesuits as of 1 January 2009 stood at 18,515.
This included 13,112 priests, 2,920 scholastics, 1,675 brothers and 809 novices.
This was a net loss of 304 from 1 January 2008, but was a smaller decline in relation to the previous year.
The average age of all Jesuits stands at 57.44 years.
The average age of priests stands at 64.24 years, while the average age of scholastics is 28.96 years, and the average age of brothers is 67.68 years.
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