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Forthcoming Events

October 26, 2011

Thursday 3 November: 3 p.m. in Emo Court: annual Mass for all who have lived and worked in Emo. The house and grounds will be open, courtesy of OPW. All...

‘Sixty years of service’

October 26, 2011

The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin (pictured here listening to Br Eamon Davis SJ), recently launched a DVD and history booklet of The Belvedere Society of our Lady of Lourdes....

President visits Clongowes

October 26, 2011

“Clongowes Wood College has given a very special form of education for over 200 years.” So said President Mary McAleese on her recent visit to the school in the closing...

Gerry Whelan SJ was recently appointed ecclesiastical assistant to the “World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations” (WUCWO) by the Vatican. His day job is teaching theology in the Gregorian University...

This was some party

October 25, 2011

Fifty years ago the Noviciate in Emo opened its doors to 31 new novices. Last month John Humphreys organised a head-count and a reunion, locating all but two of the...

JESUITICA: Bishop? No. Cardinal? Maybe

October 25, 2011

Some of the most inspiring stories of 20th century theology are about theologians who maintained an obedient silence in face of ecclesiastical censorship. In the early 1950s Karl Rahner SJ...

Fr Jim Corkery meets online

October 25, 2011

It is two years since Michael Paul Gallagher, sitting in a video-conferencing studio in Blackpitts, Dublin, ran a seminar for 600 educationalists gathered in Wellington, New Zealand. They already had...

Fr Edmund O’Keefe RIP

October 24, 2011

Fr Edmund (Ned) O’Keefe died peacefully in St Vincent’s Hospital on 13th October, at the age of 84. We offer sincere condolences to his younger brothers Fergus SJ and Niall, and...

Remembering the missions

October 12, 2011

Three Irish Jesuits are featured in a set of DVDs, under the title Missionary Stories, produced by the Irish Missionary Union (IMU) and due to be launched on 13 October....

Fallout of Cloyne: Church and state

October 12, 2011

Irish Jesuit Seamus Murphy SJ, currently lecturing in Chicago, had an article published in the Irish Times, 1 October, responding to the tense and recriminatory correspondence between the Irish government...