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Frank feels the heat
June 15, 2010
Frank Doyle SJ (left in photo) recently exchanged the green and leafy delights of Gonzaga for the humid heats of Manila, where there has been no rain for a long...
Read moreTen years of song
June 15, 2010
Ten years ago Kevin Kelly, the young organist in Gardiner Street church, suggested to Fr Edmond Grace that they set up a Gospel Choir. It was a new notion, to...
Read moreHeart speaks to heart
June 15, 2010
Dermot Mansfield, invited by Veritas to write a study of Newman, started work last October. In March, when he found himself approaching Newman’s death, he was stuck for days, as...
Read moreThe Curia moves
June 15, 2010
Three years after the fire in Eglinton Road, Fr Noel Barber reports on the Provincial Curia’s new migration this week – a move still incomplete, as this view of the reception area...
Read moreJESUITICA: Robotic virtues
June 15, 2010
Readers may be aware that able-bodied Irish Jesuits are fewer on the ground than they used be; but lawns still have to be mowed. One of the biggest lawns that...
Read moreFumbles of our funny God
June 15, 2010
On 10 June, before a crowd of over a hundred, Seósamh Ó Murchú, the principal editor of An Gúm, the state-funded Irish language publishing house, waxed enthusiastically when he launched...
Read moreAll the cups
June 15, 2010
Clongowes Wood College S.J. was triumphant in all three of the Leinster schools senior rugby competitions this year. (Pictured left to right: Leinster schools Senior Seconds Cup, Leinster schools Senior...
Read more“Crumbling childcare system” – McVerry
June 15, 2010
“Daniel was still a child, he should not have died”. So said Peter McVerry SJ, officiating at the funeral of Daniel McAnaspie on Tuesday 9 June in the Church of...
Read moreSummer ‘Studies’ on the shelves
June 15, 2010
‘Clergy, writers and intellectuals’ is the theme of the latest edition of the Jesuit periodical Studies, Summer 2010, just published this week. There are articles on the Reverend Ian Paisley,...
Read moreIIG in Inis Oirr
June 1, 2010
Coláiste Iognáid’s Ignatian Identity Group (IIG) held a highly successful retreat for some of its core members on Inis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands, on 21-23 May. One...
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GLOW: Girls learn their own worth
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