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March 23, 2010
This year’s Coláiste Iognáid (Jes) Lenten campaign, designed by Cathal Doherty SJ and Brendan McManus SJ, included daily mass, confession and a weekly meditation group. What has proved popular in...
Read more“Cardinal should not resign”
March 23, 2010
Alan McGuckian SJ published a personal opinion piece on the controversy surrounding Cardinal Sean Brady, in the Friday 19 March edition of the Irish News. In a St Patrick’s Day homily, Cardinal Brady referred to his...
Read moreSlí Eile plan for World Youth Day
March 23, 2010
Noelle Fitzpatrick of Sli Eile, the Jesuit Outreach for Young People, was one of 22 attendees at the first European planning event for Magis in Spain. The term ‘Magis’ means ‘the more’, and relates to the Ignatian notion of...
Read moreMission Office workshop
March 23, 2010
The Irish Jesuit Mission Office held a workshop from 7-12 March to re-envision its apostolic mandate and to discern its future direction. Changed realities have made fresh thinking necessary. On...
Read moreJesuit tribute to slain Archbishop
March 23, 2010
Thirty years ago this week (24 March), Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was assassinated while celebrating Mass in the chapel of a cancer hospital in the country’s capital, San Salvador. Michael O’Sullivan SJ...
Read moreShort Notices
March 9, 2010
Much satisfaction has been expressed by members of the Milltown Park community with the quality of the facilities in the new building into which they moved just before Christmas. In...
Read moreIntegrating migrants in Limerick
March 9, 2010
‘Integrating Limerick’, a two-year plan for the city and county drawn up by the Limerick Integration Working Group, was launched on Friday 5 May by Minister for Integration John Curran...
Read moreNews from the Noviciate
March 9, 2010
Ronan McCoy, currently studying in the Jesuit Novitiate in Birmingham, has sent us the following update. “We would like to thank you all for your prayers during our Spiritual Exercises....
Read moreTrekking for the homeless
March 9, 2010
A 60-kilometer trek across the rough terrain of Iceland – that is the challenge which the Peter McVerry Trust is posing to anyone who would like to help them raise...
Read moreForthcoming events
March 9, 2010
11 March: ‘Clerical sex abuse – moving on’, lecture by Prof. Patricia Casey in St Mary’s Church, Haddington Road, 8pm 11 March: ‘The Recession and God: Where do we go...
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