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Exploring Jesuit life
May 6, 2015
The Four Provinces Novitiate based in Birmingham held a weekend for prospective novices in March 2015. There were five young men from different backgrounds and cultures all interested in exploring...
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Frontiers of fear
May 1, 2015
Jesuit Missions Office director, John K Guiney SJ, recalls a recent meeting of Social Delegates in Nador, Morocco, which reflected on Jesuit work with migrants in the fraught borderlands between...
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Royal toast for John Sullivan SJ
April 24, 2015
Church of Ireland Archbishop Michael Jackson has praised the life and legacy of Fr John Sullivan SJ in a recent address at his alma mater, Portora Royal School, Enniskillen.
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Following your nose
April 17, 2015
PAULA NOLAN :: In the past the world was full of 'people smells', but many of them were replaced by the scents of the cosmetic/pharmaceutical industry. All the old smells...
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Sharing and remembering for good
April 15, 2015
Terry Howard SJ has been involved for five years with the 'Ethical and Shared Remembering' project, delivering cross-community education and training in Northern Ireland. The course is coming to Trinity...
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‘From Easter Week to Flanders Field’
April 15, 2015
John Delaney SJ walked the streets of Dublin during Easter Week 1916 and served as a chaplain in WWI. His story is told in Jesuit historian Thomas Morrissey's latest book.
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Jordan Spieth at Jesuit, Dallas
April 15, 2015
Jordan Spieth, the astonishing 21-year-old who won the US Masters title on Low Sunday, has a strong link with the Jesuits, having attended the Jesuit College in Dallas, Texas.
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‘Passion and Persuasion’
April 15, 2015
Dr Audrey Nicholls, art curator, takes Pat Coyle on a tour of 'Passion and Persuasion', an exhibition of Jesuit-inspired paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland. The exhibition has been...
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“My brother” – his killer
April 15, 2015
"My brother": the last two words of Fr Frans van der Lugt SJ, spoken to his killer who shot him twice at point-blank range. Irish Jesuit Missions Office have made...
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Ministering in an LGBT-friendly way
April 14, 2015
Irish-born Jesuit Fr Donal Godfrey features in an article in the National Catholic Reporter, describing the Most Holy Redeemer parish in San Francisco, which has a long history of ministering...
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