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Jesuit books for Christmas

December 7, 2011

A guide to the Gospel of Mark by Phil Fogarty SJ and just published by Columba Press, is the last in his very successful and  accessible ‘Navigating the Gospels’ series...

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Jesuit Missions Christmas Cards

December 7, 2011

The Jesuit Mission Office is selling four Christmas cards this year, all of them designed by pupils in Upendo Primary School in Kangemi, a slum settlement of at least 100,000...

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Ethics in journalism

December 6, 2011

Since Fr John K. Guiney took over as president of the Irish Missionary Union, one issue has made huge demands on his energies: the defamation of Fr Kevin Reynolds (pictured...

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Confucius in Gt Denmark Street

December 6, 2011

Back in the 1970s it used be said that the optimists were learning Russian (taught in Belvedere by Fr Schrenk), and the pessimists Chinese. The opposite is true today. After...

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JESUITICA: Signposting the Mormons

December 6, 2011

The Mormons are under particular scrutiny in the USA because one of them, Mitt Romney, has declared an interest in the Presidency. There was a time when they were less...

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Christmas cards from Jesuit Missions

November 28, 2011

The Jesuit Mission Office is selling four designed Christmas cards for the price of €1.00 each.  The cards have been designed by school pupils in Eastern Africa and all proceeds...

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Tour of Roman archives

November 23, 2011

Damien Burke (Irish Jesuit Archives) and Margaret Doyle (Clongowes Wood College) attended the Catholic Archives Society study trip to Rome last October. Over a six-day period, twelve visits were arranged,...

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Forthcoming events

November 23, 2011

Sunday 27 November and Sunday 4 December: Magis Ireland: Retreat in Daily Life. For further information, contact [email protected]. Tel:01 8880606. Sunday 27 November: Mass for deceased members of Coláiste Iognáid...

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Remembering the dead

November 23, 2011

As the year is dying, Christians remember the dead: the millions whose lives were squandered in tragic wars, and the others, close to us, whom we save from oblivion by...

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Finance a service industry?

November 23, 2011

Bill Mathews’ first degree was in electrical engineering, long before he thought of the Jesuits. In the best Jesuit tradition (see the Jesuitica story above) he was attracted to mathematics...

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