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Focus on faith at Interface conference
November 10, 2009
Michael Paul Gallagher SJ gave the keynote address to over one hundred young theolgians from North America, Continental Europe, the UK and Ireland on Friday 6 Nov 2009. He told the...
Read moreTEFL in Belvedere
November 10, 2009
AMDG Express is always looking out for growth points in the ministries we cover. Occasionally good works are rewarded with publicity, recognition, and even medals and awards. That is not...
Read moreCorkery on Ratzinger: “sympathetic but not uncritical”
November 10, 2009
In his new book, Joseph Ratzinger’s Theological Ideas: Wise Cautions and Legitimate Hopes, Jim Corkery SJ argues against any simplistic caricaturing of Ratzinger’s thought, which he claims is highly nuanced...
Read moreCelebration with music
November 10, 2009
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Crescent College Comprehensive in Limerick, its music teacher Roisin Lavery organized a Celebración de Música on October 10th. Choirs and orchestras from Crescent, Belvedere,...
Read moreJESUITICA: Mungret man at the front
November 10, 2009
Tomorrow, Remembrance Day, we might think of Michael Bergin, born in Roscrea, schooled in Mungret, a remarkable Irish Jesuit chaplain with the Anzac force, which he joined as a trooper...
Read moreShort Notices
November 10, 2009
There is a Jesuit link in the significant appointment of Canon Pat Browne as the first Catholic chaplain to Britain’s Houses of Parliament. A late vocation, Pat graduated from the Mungret...
Read moreForthcoming events
November 10, 2009
10 November: Jim Corkery’s book launch (see “Corkery on Ratzinger” above) – Milltown Theatre, 5.30 pm 10 November: Liam Lawton in Concert – Gardiner Street Church, 8.00pm 12 November: Lecture by...
Read moreIreland hosts JRS Europe AGM
November 3, 2009
The Annual General Meeting of the Jesuit Refugee Service Europe took place in Clongowes College in County Kildare, Ireland, from 29 October – 1November 2009. Over 60 participants from 18...
Read moreJoint Jesuit-Anglican venture in Rome
November 3, 2009
Irish Jesuit Gerry Whelan SJ took part in a rather unusual initiative in Rome recently when the Anglican Centre there decided to host a week-long course on Ignatian spirituality. The focus was on the ...
Read moreIreland builds in Africa
November 3, 2009
Much of Murt Curry’s work in the Mission Office is in the detailed preparation of applications for funding of mission projects by Irish Aid, the Irish people’s principal contribution to...
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