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Magis Ireland launched
September 28, 2010
Magis Ireland (formerly Slí Eile), was launched on Sunday, 26 Sept by the Irish Jesuit Provincial Tom Layden. He said that Magis Ireland reflects a shift in vision whereby the organisation is...
Read moreJesuits commemorate Newman
September 28, 2010
Irish Jesuits played their part in the beatification Mass of Cardinal Newman Sunday 19 September. The Jesuit novitiate’s response to the papal visit started “with eleven novices standing in a...
Read moreSoul-friends
September 28, 2010
On 18 September the large theatre in Gonzaga College was over 90% full for the Anamcharadas seminar: Living Faith in the 21st century. Michael Paul Gallagher SJ presented ‘Where are...
Read moreA different type of leader
September 28, 2010
The first module of the Arrupe Leadership Programme took place in the Manresa Jesuit Centre for Spirituality, Clontarf on 24 -25 September. Thirteen participants from all walks of life meet to...
Read moreLimerick Sixes success
September 28, 2010
Limerick’s first intercultural soccer festival, The Limerick Sixes Soccer World Cup 2010, has been hailed as “a huge success” by organizers, who hope now to make it an annual event....
Read moreJESUITICA: An eye on the heavens
September 24, 2010
In 1841 there were only two places in USA for the study of stars and planets. James Curley SJ, born in Roscommon 45 years earlier, decided to build an observatory...
Read moreYom Kippur
September 24, 2010
On Thursday, 16 September, the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Tom Casey (in his role as Director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic...
Read more“Healing a broken Church?”
September 16, 2010
“Any objective observer looking at the struggles that have taken place within the Catholic Church in Ireland would be struck by the extent of the suffering and anger that has...
Read moreChallenging the Congress
September 14, 2010
Peter McVerry’s call in the September Furrow is so forward-looking and trenchant that it deserves wide coverage. “ The Eucharistic Congress in 2012 will be a meaningless charade unless it...
Read moreNovices with a history
September 14, 2010
Two Irishmen, one joining the Birmingham noviciate, the other graduating, illustrate how different the scene is from twenty years ago. Shane Daly pronounced his vows of perpetual poverty, chastity and...
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