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Near Death

September 13, 2011

Boosted by, among other things, the prayers of our readers, Michael J. Kelly SJ, world-renowned expert on HIV/Aids, has come back from life-threatening surgery. And he has reported, in his...

Sore muscles, happy heart

September 13, 2011

Brendan McManus SJ completed the 800 km Camino de Santiago on foot this summer in honour of his brother Donal (RIP), and raised almost €5000 for the suicide awareness group,...

JESUITICA: Doing pirouettes

September 13, 2011

In their effort to teach good public speaking, the Jesuit educators of the 17th and 18th centuries moved into drama. The plays which they wrote and directed were originally in...

Finding contentment in faith

September 13, 2011

Finding Contentment in Faith David Cleary “Be like giraffes”. That is what Adolfo Nicolás, Superior General of the Jesuits asked three thousand international pilgrims in Loyola last August to be....

Short Notices

September 12, 2011

Niall S. Leahy, who in our last issue described his 5-week pilgrimage round Ulster, embarked on a longer pilgrimage on 6 September, when he and Ronan McCoy took their first...

Money for missions

August 30, 2011

Money for missions goes out constantly from Ireland to Africa, and is monitored scrupulously by, among others, the Jesuit Mission Office. A recent grant of €88,000 will help a new...

‘Be like giraffes!’, Magis pilgrims told

August 30, 2011

Fifty-one participants travelled with Magis Ireland to be part of the MAGiS-World Youth Day’s seventeen-day programme in Spain this August. It began energetically in Loyola where the Irish contingent joined...

Forthcoming Events

August 30, 2011

Tuesday 30 August: Public Lecture by Michael Paul Gallagher SJ entitled ‘The Imagination – A Spiritual Anchor for Today’ in St. Francis Xavier Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1 at 7.30pm....

Short Notices

August 30, 2011

John O’Malley SJ author of What Happened at Vatican II, will be visiting Ireland on the invitation of the Irish Jesuit Province and the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland. He...

Good results

August 30, 2011

The day of the Leaving Certificate results, Crescent College put on a breakfast for 137 happy graduates. It was a good morning there and in the other Jesuit colleges –...