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Evensong for Blessed John Sullivan
April 18, 2018
There was a packed congregation for the ecumenical Evensong in thanksgiving for the life of Blessed John Sullivan SJ at St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen
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Easter Tenebrae at Clongowes
March 29, 2018
Clongowes Wood College SJ staged the annual Easter liturgy of Tenebrae at the school's Sports Hall on 21 March
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‘Can we talk about Jesus?’
March 7, 2018
Jesuit school principals from all over Europe met to discuss the challenges and opportunities for Jesuit schools in a multi-faith world
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The science of spirituality
February 21, 2018
Michael O'Sullivan of SpIRE explains how spirituality has unhelpfully been understood as belonging exclusively to the domain of the private and detached
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Rowers race across the Atlantic
January 31, 2018
Old Clongownian Tommy Browne (2010) and the 'Relentless Rowers' set an Irish record rowing 5,000 km across the Atlantic Ocean, and raised funds for sick children
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‘Stand upright. Raise your head. Do theology.’
January 30, 2018
'Doing theology in troubled times' is a topic occupying the thoughts of Michael Kirwan SJ, lecturing in the Loyola Institute, TCD
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‘He was a good man’
January 24, 2018
Staff and students of Gonzaga, along with Jesuits, family and friends, said a fond farewell to Joe Brennan SJ at his funeral Mass in the Church of the Holy Name
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Double tragedy at Gonzaga
January 9, 2018
Gonzaga community and college have been left in shock by the deaths on the same day of Kennedy O’Brien SJ and Joe Brennan SJ
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A Jesuit ‘man of the people’
January 5, 2018
The first ever children’s book about Fr Willie Doyle SJ, has just been published. It's available in English and Irish
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Milestone for the Loyola Institute
December 18, 2017
Dr Mary Stefanazzi was one of the first students to graduate this year from the Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin
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‘The grandeur of humanity’
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GLOW: Girls learn their own worth
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Fascinating facts from our past
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Pope Video: For children with incurable diseases
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Small steps with God’s help
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Faithful Justice: Reimagining the Jesuit Mission
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