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Manresa hosts Kenyan orphans

August 25, 2009

For the second year running, Manresa has played host this summer to a group of HIV-positive orphans from Kenya. Sixteen children between the ages of 12 and 17 spent a...

Return of the Lisbon Treaty

August 25, 2009

In the first of a series of podcasts, Edmond Grace SJ argues earnestly that the Irish ought to vote Yes to Lisbon in the upcoming referendum. To vote against the...

Messenger serves An Timire

August 25, 2009

The Sacred Heart Messenger is now providing a full design and print management solution for An Timire. The two magazines have just completed their first collaborative project, a prayer book...

Pulling up the boats

August 25, 2009

At the end of August many Irish Jesuits are like St Peter, drawing up their boats on the shore and leaving the lakes (this one is Currane in Kerry) and the summer’s...

JESUITICA: Père Lachaise

August 25, 2009

One of Europe’s best known cemeteries takes its name from Père François de la Chaise SJ (1624-1709), confessor to Louis XIV, who lived in the Jesuit house rebuilt in 1682 on the...

CÓIR and Caravaggio

August 25, 2009

When CÓIR, an organisation claiming Catholic credentials, issued a leaflet urging rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, it used a reproduction of Caravaggio’s Taking of Christ to illustrate the theme of...

Fast girls on water

August 11, 2009

Zoe Mannion and Aifric Keogh of Coláiste Iognáid won the silver medal in the women’s junior pair on Sunday, August 2, finishing second to Britain, who won the event overall....

Fast girls on land

August 11, 2009

Crescent Comprehensive College’s junior girls 4 x 100 meters relay team were in devastating form at the All Ireland schools Athletics meet in Tullamore. They lifted the gold medal for...

Short Notices

August 11, 2009

Two thousand of Fr Frank Browne’s photographs formed the basis of a highly recommended TV programme shown on RTE on 10 August: “Day before yesterday: Birth of a Nation”. Take a...