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Students respond to Ricci
December 21, 2010
A huge variety of events were held worldwide to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Matteo Ricci, the unique Jesuit missionary to China. In Ireland we had the Ricci Mass and...
Read moreParting from Declan
December 21, 2010
Declan Deane, who died in California on 12 December, had been an Irish Jesuit for over thirty years, before joining the diocese of Oakland. He is remembered with deep affection...
Read moreJESUITICA: a foreign boss
December 21, 2010
This month marks the 150th birthday of the Irish Jesuit Province, its corporate coming of age. Before 1860 it was a vice-province, and before 1829 a mission. In 1836 the...
Read moreA great ex-Jesuit
December 21, 2010
This month marks the sesquicentenary not just of the Irish Province, but of Patrick Dinneen, the Irish lexicographer and historian,who was a Jesuit for twenty years. He was a Kerryman, born in 1860....
Read moreA million for the homeless
December 21, 2010
The 25th Belvedere College Annual Sleep-Out and Fast will take place on 22-24 December outside the Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin 2 and at the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin...
Read moreForthcoming events
December 7, 2010
6-10 December: Adult Triduum, directed by Fr. Piaras Jackson SJ in Manresa, Dollymount, Dublin 3. Further information, contact 01 8334352 3-17 December: Belvedere College ‘Austrian Exchange’. For further information, contact...
Read moreGalway: tossing and turning
December 7, 2010
The pictures in this Picasa album should possibly carry a health warning for those who knew and loved the old Colaiste Iognaid. It is hard to look unmoved at the demise...
Read moreNijmegen: Not merging but meeting
December 7, 2010
While Ireland is fretting over the loss of economic sovereignty to ECB and IMF, the Jesuits of four West European Provinces (North Belgium, Netherlands, Britain and Ireland) are observing the process...
Read moreExploring the ‘Song of Songs’
December 7, 2010
Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity, USA, will give a public lecture on ‘Retrieving the Song of Songs for Today’ Tuesday, 7 December, at All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. Her...
Read moreRwanda: nothing disappeared
December 7, 2010
The picture regularly topping the front page of AMDG Express shows Gerry Clarke SJ officiating in priestly garb at a JRS camp in Congo. He is in Rwanda now, and his worries...
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