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Joining young people for climate action
September 17, 2019
Ciara Murphy, Environmental Justice Advocate at JCFJ, draws from the Pope's encyclical letter Laudato Si’ to expain why she is protesting with school students on 20 September
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Clongowes hosts Blessed John Sullivan exhibition
September 10, 2019
Bishop Denis Nulty launched an exhibition of the 'People's Saint' as part of National Heritage Week in Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare
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Diaconate ordination – Joy for ‘local boy’
September 10, 2019
Friends and parishioners were among well-wishers at the ordination to the diaconate of Niall Leahy SJ in St Oliver Plunkett Church, County Louth
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Film review: Blinded by the light
September 9, 2019
BRENDAN McMANUS :: Review of 'Blinded by the light', a gem of a movie in which Javed, a Pakistani boy growing up in Thatcher's Britain, turns for meaning to the...
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Consoling silence
September 4, 2019
GAVIN T. MURPHY :: A contemplation on how Mary Magdalen turns to God in the depth of her heart before meeting the risen Jesus, in line with the Jesuits' new...
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Bannon’s skewed view of the Pope
September 4, 2019
Australian Jesuit Richard Leonard critiques the distorted vision of the current papacy held by US strategist Steve Bannon
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Aesóp ag filleadh go hÉireann
September 3, 2019
A beautifully illustrated book of Aesop's Fables in Irish has just been published by the Jesuit publishing house FÁS
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Taking a stand for human rights in Cambodia
August 28, 2019
ASHLEY EVANS SJ :: The Irish Jesuit, who has been working in Cambodia for over 30 years, reports on Kung Raiya, Hong Kong, the Church and Hannah Arendt.
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It’s not about the gear!
August 28, 2019
BRENDAN MCMANUS :: The real magic is disconnecting from all but the most basic technology, getting back into your body and finding some priceless inner peace.
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Life through the lens of Ireland’s first Jesuits
August 27, 2019
A new book on letters by Irish Jesuits in the 17th century shows that although they were very small in number at the time, the Jesuits we making their mark...
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