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Salvadoran Martyrs
January 27, 2009
A Spanish court has begun an investigation into the murder of six Jesuits (five of them Spanish citizens) and two laywomen in El Salvador in 1989. Although two soldiers were...
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January 27, 2009
Fr Leonard Chiti of the Zambia-Malawi province, currently a tertian in Manresa, has joined the Clongowes community until Easter. He is very active in the school – in fact, he’s...
Read moreO.C. Music-maker
January 27, 2009
Old Clongownian Owen Brady is being hailed as Dublin’s next big thing in music. A singer (starting as a boy soprano) and songwriter who left Clongowes in 1999, he has...
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January 20, 2009
The launch of Jesuits in Hong Kong, South China and Beyond, will take place in Milltown Park at 7.30 p.m. on 28 January. Fr Provincial will present a copy of...
Read moreWhy China?
January 20, 2009
Last week’s AMDG Express anticipated a visit to Belvedere by the Chinese Ambassador, to celebrate a student exchange programme with Jesuit schools in China. Why China? There are three major...
Read moreBuilding in Galway
January 20, 2009
In 1998 Coláiste Iognáid submitted its plans for new classrooms, and last September the Department of Education announced that it was one of 25 projects which would get the go-ahead...
Read moreEcumenics then and now
January 20, 2009
The Venerable Patrick Lawrence, Rector of Julianstown and Archdeacon of Meath and Kildare, has been appointed the new Rector of Monkstown (church pictured here) in the Diocese of Dublin. While...
Read moreCLC in prayer
January 20, 2009
Something new is happening in Leeson Street. Michael O. Gallagher SJ has started an eight-week retreat with thirteen Christian Life Community members. Each Saturday they come together with Michael, reflect...
Read moreYoung Scientists
January 20, 2009
What do young scientists look like? Here is a sample from this year’s exhibition in the RDS. Clongowes is proud of Henry Glass (pictured here with Taoiseach Brian Cowen), whose...
Read moreChurch Unity week
January 13, 2009
Tom Layden SJ in Belfast is the Province coordinator of ecumenism, working as a quiet leaven rather than a city on a hilltop. He worships regularly with Christians of other...
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Looking back to go forward
September 18, 2023 - Leon O'Giolláin SJ attended a conference in Rome exploring what it means to be a Jesuit in today's world, convened by the Jesuit Fr. General
St Ignatius and spiritual conversation
August 25, 2023 - Leon O'Giolláin SJ explores 'spiritual conversation' in the context of St Ignatius' spirituality and his 'Spiritual Exercises'.
‘Music for the soul’ from the archives
August 10, 2023 - Brendan McManus SJ speaks about how music is the 'royal road to the heart' that helps us get through some of the hardest moments in our lives.
Pedro Arrupe’s final years
August 1, 2023 - Brian Grogan SJ, author of 'Pedro Arrupe: A Heart Larger than the World', speaks about the Jesuit leader's stroke and final years.
The Beatitudes – ‘The blessing is within the experience’
July 25, 2023 - Australian Jesuit Fr Richard Leonard speaks to Pat Coyle about the 'big gospel passage on law and love' known as the Beatitudes.
Latest Videos
A Phel Good Time!
September 18, 2023 - Tom Phelan SJ is a Jesuit brother, composer, instrumentalist and motorbike enthusiast. Why did he join the Jesuits?
Pope Video: People on the margins
September 12, 2023 - In the Pope Video for September, Pope Francis asks people to "pray for those people on the margins of society.
Pope Video: For World Youth Day
August 3, 2023 - Christians are asked to pray that the World Youth Day in Lisbon will help young people to set out on the journey, witnessing to the Gospel.
Pope Video: For a Eucharistic life
July 19, 2023 - In the Pope Video for July, Pope Francis prays that Catholics place the Eucharistic celebration at the centre of their lives.
Pope Video: For the abolition of torture
June 6, 2023 - Pope Francis prays that the international community may commit itself concretely to abolish torture and guarantee support to victims.
Latest Blog Posts
We are gold
August 29, 2023 - GAVIN THOMAS MURPHY :: Experiencing the kindness of a colleague inspired me to meditate on how God might treat us in every aspect of our lives.
Comfortably numb
August 22, 2023 - BRENDAN McMANUS SJ :: Being numb seems like a pleasant state in that it avoids pain but it also avoids life and the unpredictability, and any real happiness.
Images of God
August 18, 2023 - BILL TONER SJ :: Our 'God concept' may become an impediment in our spiritual lives. So how should we imagine God, if God doesn't 'exist' as other things exist?
Twelve things I learned accompanying pilgrims
June 26, 2023 - BRENDAN McMANUS SJ :: A reflection on listening to people's stories at the Camino pilgrim reception centre, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, this summer.
St John Henry Newman: Hedgehog and fox
June 19, 2023 - DERMOT ROANTREE :: Newman believed in the unity of all truth, and it was this that made him unafraid to expose students to a wide range of ideas and influences.