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JESUITICA: The price of a Jesuit
November 8, 2010
Three hundred years ago, with Penal Laws at their stiffest in Ireland, the bishop of Kerry recorded the scale of rewards for priest-hunters. It was: £30 for a simple priest;...
Read moreBlessed Dominic remembered in Youghal
November 8, 2010
“It is not the suffering that makes the martyr but the cause” said Fr Barney McGuckian during the Blessed Dominic Collin’s Memorial Lecture in the parish hall of the Holy Family...
Read more“Where the Hell is God?”
November 8, 2010
When Australian Jesuit Richard Leonard was studying theology and looking at issues such as God and suffering and the ethics of euthanasia, it was largely an academic exercise. When his young...
Read moreSpirituality lectures in All Hallows
October 29, 2010
All Hallows College is holding a series of lectures on Contemporary Spirituality to mark the launch last August of its new MA in Applied Christian Spirituality. The lectures will be...
Read moreLiving with dignity
October 26, 2010
A seminar to mark ‘Social Inclusion Week, Living with Dignity’, jointly organised by Limerick City Council, Limerick County Council and Limerick Integration Working Group, took place in Adare, Co Limerick...
Read moreThe story of Wambui
October 26, 2010
As a sequel to John Guiney’s recollections last issue, we publish here another narrative to mark October’s status of Mission Month. It is a story about a mission to vulnerable...
Read moreShort Notices
October 26, 2010
Fr Provincial Tom Layden is back from a meeting in Bad Schönbrunn, Switzerland, of European Provincials planning matters of common concern. The principal event was the handing over of the baton, of...
Read moreForthcoming events
October 26, 2010
1 November: Historian Fergus O’Donoghue SJ launches The Papacy since 1500: From Italian Prince to Universal Pastor, a collection of original essays edited by Jim Corkery SJ and Tom Worcester...
Read moreIntroducing Ricci to schools
October 26, 2010
The Jesuit Communications Centre has published an education pack for Junior cycle religion and history students, as the final part of the commemoration celebrations of Matteo Ricci SJ. 2010 is the...
Read moreCharting recovery
October 26, 2010
How good it would be if economic recovery in Ireland were to be balanced, sustainable and just. The current issue of Working Notes, published by the Jesuit Centre for Faith...
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