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A terrible beauty
January 25, 2007
January 25, 2007 A terrible beauty How the Irish are in flight from the past by Thomas G Casey SJ Every article written for the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica...
Read moreLifeline for the suicidal
January 19, 2007
In his regular AMDG column, David Gaffney applauds efforts, both in Ireland and abroad, to take a holistic, communitarian approach to suicide prevention, especially among young people. There were two...
Read moreWhat is love?
January 19, 2007
Christine Clear, who is currently giving a course on Love at the Milltown Institute, reflects here on the multifarious and complex meanings of that simple word. Do you think a...
Read moreThe Jesuits: God’s ‘secret agents’!
January 19, 2007
Brendan McManus SJ reviews a recent book about the Jesuits in 16th and 17th century Britain, a book which goes a long way towards rebutting the pejorative fictions about Jesuit...
Read moreTaking time out with the LRA
January 19, 2007
The Lay Retreat Association has been running retreats since its foundation (by Fr Eugene Ward SJ) in 1945. It is still alive and well, meeting the needs of lay people...
Read moreThe Ignatian dimension of Clongowes life
January 19, 2007
Recently appointed Director of Ethos in Clongowes Wood College, Frank Clarke poses some interesting questions and outlines some new programmes which will further emphasise the role of Ignatian spirituality and...
Read moreThe Pope: a scholar and a gentleman
January 19, 2007
Michael Paul Gallagher, Dean of Theology at the Gregorian University, has watched Pope Benedict from close quarters and has been very impressed. He speaks about the pope to Piaras Jackson...
Read moreSilence and the slowed-down life
January 19, 2007
Philip Groening spent six months living with Carthusian monks in France in order to make a film about their lives. The film, ‘Into Great Silence’, is an extraordinary chronicle of...
Read moreWomen with child
January 19, 2007
Paul Andrews stresses the need for people to perceive pregnancy positively and for society to respond compassionately to the needs of women at this vulnerable time of their lives, no...
Read moreAMDG Express Editorial
January 15, 2007
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