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Lourdes: “The best experience”

October 31, 2014

Before the Belvedere party left Dublin for Lourdes, Cormac Devilly, a 6th year student, was commissioned to write about the experience. Here are his reflections: “When I was given this...

Remembering the war dead

October 31, 2014

At September’s end a number of Jesuits along with students and staff of Clongowes College, visited Flanders and the Somme. There they commemorated the contribution of former Clongowes’ students and...

Fr Browne in Farmleigh

October 31, 2014

Yale University Press is to publish a major work on Jesuit photographer Fr Browne. Frank Browne, A Life Through the Lens will be launched Sat 1 November in Farmleigh Gallery,...

Fighting for freedom

October 31, 2014

The title theme of the latest issue of Studies (Autumn 2014) is ‘Religious freedom in the 21st century’, but matters relating to Ireland’s political and cultural freedom in the early...

A Life of Variety – Tom Layden SJ

October 21, 2014

Losing Precious Roots – Michael Paul Gallagher SJ

October 21, 2014

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...

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...

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...

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...