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October 11, 2011
Fr John Redmond died peacefully in Cherryfield on 29 September at the age of 87. How would we like to remember John? In two scenes, from the start and the...
Read moreAn Timire turns 100
October 11, 2011
On Saturday September 24th a big group of readers and contributors gathered in the Carmelite house in Avila, Donnybrook, for a Mass to give thanks for 100 years of Timire...
Read moreJESUITICA: Midwives to a nation
October 11, 2011
The national Catholic newspaper of Canada has published a 36-page homage to the Jesuits as they mark 400 years in Canada. According to Jim O’Leary, the editor, “More so than...
Read more€100,000 donated to Pioneers
October 7, 2011
The Pioneer Association has been given a new lease of life due to the generosity of its own members and members of the public who donated €108,000 to its first...
Read moreForthcoming events
September 28, 2011
Wednesdays 28 September and 12 October: Movies that matter, Autumn Series – ‘The Journey into Love and Relationship’. An introduction to reflection through the medium of film at 7pm –...
Read moreSongs of Stephen
September 28, 2011
In the good old days when Stephen Redmond SJ was teaching English and History in the young Gonzaga, he was also writing music. In 1968 his Irish song Gleann na...
Read moreStudents work, fund and serve
September 28, 2011
Fifty Leaving Cert students from Jesuit schools and Holy Rosary College Crumlin, raised €25,000 euro for projects in Jamaica and Africa, which they themselves had taken part in (see picture)....
Read moreThe final hurdle
September 28, 2011
When a Jesuit has finished his studies and worked in some ministry for a couple of years, there is one final hurdle, called Tertianship, to be crossed before his “formation”...
Read moreStudies: a trenchant swan-song
September 28, 2011
Outgoing Studies editor Fergus O’Donoghue’s swansong editorial, in the wake of the Cloyne Report, is a quotable dose of political incorrectness: “An arrogant bishop proved his pastoral ineptitude by his...
Read moreJESUITICA: Hell on the Moon
September 28, 2011
You may be puzzled by the title of a crater on a map of the moon: Hell. This cold, barren feature is not named after the opposite of Heaven, but...
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