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Time for straight talking
October 17, 2014
“When someone dies by suicide we ask ‘Why did it happen?’ And we need to say to each other that we do not know and we never know.” So said...
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Loss of a leader: John Humphreys
October 17, 2014
Last Friday, 10 October, the Irish Jesuits lost one of their great servants. John Humphreys, aged 71, had been unconscious for two days, and increasingly sick with a brain tumour...
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JRS Director appointed to Government group
October 17, 2014
Eugene Quinn, Director of Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland, has been named as one of the people to serve on a Government-appointed working group to examine improvements to the Protection Process...
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Homeless Jesus
October 17, 2014
The pictured bronze sculpture of the homeless Jesus, by renowned Canadian Catholic artist Timothy P. Schmalz, has proved challenging and controversial. It should not be difficult to imagine Jesus as...
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Studies on Irish identities
October 7, 2014
There have always been issues concerning Irish identity. For centuries what dominated was the distinction between the native Irish and, first, the colonisers and then the Anglo-Irish.
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Be brave and remember, Pope tells Jesuits
October 7, 2014
The Jesuits were suppressed in 1773 and reconstituted in 1814. Pope Francis marked the 200th anniversary of the Jesuit Restoration by presiding over the Thanksgiving Liturgy (Vespers).
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Under the influence – Jesuits in Ireland
October 3, 2014
‘Under the Influence – The Jesuits in Ireland’ was the title of a two-day history conference to mark the bi-centenary of the Restoration of the Jesuits. It was hosted in...
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Demolishing Moyross houses ‘sinful’, says Jesuit
October 3, 2014
Fr Tony O’Riordan SJ, parish priest of Moyross, Limerick, has described the demolition of over 400 houses in the Moyross estate as “sinful” given the number of people who require...
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Jesuit Chaplains of World War I
October 3, 2014
Irish Jesuit Chaplains in the First World War, (Messenger Publications) edited by Damien Burke, assistant archivist to the Jesuit Province, was launched on Friday 17 September, by Roisin Duffy of...
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Jesuit brother launches new single
September 30, 2014
Irish Jesuits · Jesuit brother launches new single Tom Phelan is a biker, traditional musician and Jesuit brother. After his mother’s death last year he felt the best tribute he...
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‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
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