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GC35 adopts first three decrees
March 4, 2008
Three decrees have been adopted by the General Congregation in Rome in recent days. The first of them (29 February) concerns ‘Governance at the Service of the Universal Mission‘ and...
Read moreThe family today
March 4, 2008
The Irish family is not in crisis, but neither is it in full health. So argues Fergus O’Donoghue SJ in the editorial of the spring 2008 issue of Studies, which...
Read moreMr Frank Murphy, RIP
March 4, 2008
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Frank Murphy, father of Fr. James (Séamus) Murphy SJ, who died in Salthill, Galway. Funeral details will be published in Wednesday’s...
Read moreCan faith and politics mix?
March 4, 2008
Can faith inform secular affairs while respecting freedom of conscience? This is one of the questions up for discussion at the Sixth Slí Eile Pub Conversation, which will be held...
Read moreIs Love Enough? Action Makes Love Real
March 4, 2008
The Pobal Dé conference held in Milltown Park on Saturday 1 March was a great success. More than one hundred people attended. Below is the full text of Gerry O’Hanlon’s...
Read moreAddress of His Holiness Benedict XVI
February 27, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI's address to the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus
Read moreThe God solution
February 26, 2008
Professor Simon Conway Morris, of the School of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University, gave this spring’s Studies / Iona Institute lecture at the Davenport Hotel, Dublin, on 21 February. Using...
Read morePobal Dé conference: Is love enough?
February 26, 2008
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ (pictured right) is one of the speakers to address the Pobal Dé conference this year, which will be held in Milltown Park on Saturday 1 March (from...
Read moreUntangling the web of 19th century inter-church relations
February 26, 2008
Oliver Rafferty SJ, who taught at various colleges in England, Ireland and the United States, has just brought out a new academic work about Catholicism in 19th Century Ireland. The...
Read moreThe mind of Benedict
February 26, 2008
Michael Paul Gallagher SJ, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, was back in Ireland recently to deliver a lecture on the theology of Pope...
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‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
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