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Colwell challenges Galway
April 5, 2011
Mary Colwell, a Bristol-born producer of TV shows, spent a day in Galway last month talking to students and staff of Coláiste Iognáid and the general public on an ecological...
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Short Notices
April 5, 2011
Heart of a Jesuit, the Irish Jesuit Vocations website, has a new poster, a section of which is pictured here, devised by Graphics Artist Aine Kierans and Jesuit novice Niall...
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A pastor in the Greg
April 5, 2011
Irish Jesuit Gerry Whelan, who teaches pastoral theology and fundamental theology in the Gregorian University, Rome, is coordinating a series of public lectures for the centenary of Mother Teresa’s birth,...
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Lent as desert
April 5, 2011
A flute playing, Irish speaking, Church of Ireland minister from the Protestant heartland of East Belfast is the interviewee on Lenten Voices for the fourth week of Lent. Rev Gary...
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Rwanda: light and dark
April 5, 2011
Gerry Clarke SJ faces problems of darkness at Gihembe refugee camp, where there is no electricity supply and therefore no possibility of doing homework after six in the evening. But a...
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Plato in Ballymun
April 5, 2011
J.U.S.T., the Jesuit University Support and Training Project in Ballymun, run cultural programmes in addition to their work with undergraduates. Director Kevin O’Higgins SJ launched a course of Philosophy for Beginners, hoping that...
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The leader within
April 5, 2011
Fifteen people completed the first Arrupe Leadership Progamme in Ireland, having spent six weekends over six months, examining leadership from a faith-based and Ignatian perspective. The course which took place...
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What makes a school Jesuit?
April 5, 2011
Australian Jesuit Richard Leonard was back in Ireland in late March to give three workshops. On Friday 25 March, he led teachers from the Jesuit colleges in exploring what it...
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A question of faith
April 5, 2011
What does it mean to be a person of faith?’ was the question explored by well known Christian author Margaret Silf, in a talk attended by over three hundred people...
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JRS news is good news…
April 5, 2011
The news was good when Jan O’Sullivan TD, Minister of State, Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade launched the Progress Report on the Limerick City and Council Integration Plan, in...
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