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Looking steadily at death
December 8, 2009
A copy of this year’s winter issue of Studies should be sent to every school in the country, said Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, the veteran RTE broadcaster, at the Studies launch...
Read moreNew advocacy network launched
December 8, 2009
A new initiative for international Jesuit collaboration on advocacy has emerged in the form of the Ignatian Advocacy Network. Its proposed working groups include Peace and Human Rights, Governance of...
Read moreReflection on the recession
December 8, 2009
“The truth will set you free.” So said Michael D. Higgins TD (pictured here) at an evening prayer service in the Jesuit Church in Galway on Sunday 29 November. Almost...
Read moreJESUITICA: Casting light on the sun
December 8, 2009
Curious that one of the pioneers of the scientific study of the sun should be called Scheiner. The man in question, Christoph Scheiner (1579-1650), was a German Jesuit and an...
Read moreCecil McGarry, SJ
November 25, 2009
Cecil McGarry SJ, Irish Provincial from 1969-1975, died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday 24 November, in Nairobi, Kenya. After his time as Provincial, Fr Cecil spent some years as...
Read moreChaplains’ work crucial for Church
November 24, 2009
“Your work as chaplains is one of the most important missions in the Church”. That was the message from Dr Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, to thirty members of the...
Read moreMount-‘Joy’ to the world!
November 24, 2009
Prisoners in Mountjoy, working with Sli Eile, the Jesuit Outreach to Young Adults, have put their own hand-made Christmas cards on the market. The proceeds from the sales will go...
Read moreJesuits in the DIB
November 24, 2009
There was Jesuit interest and involvement in the monumental Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB), which was launched on 18 November in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, before some 500 people. ...
Read moreIrish booklaunch fest
November 24, 2009
For a few years now Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta has produced but not properly celebrated some beautiful new books. So, on Tuesday Nov 17th there was a Slógadh Mór and a...
Read more‘Please Sir, can I have some more?’
November 24, 2009
“It truly was,” as Dr Anne Looney described it,”a gathering of the aspiring, the perspiring and the inspiring!” Teachers, pupils and educators arrived in significant numbers for the Education Symposium...
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Restoring women to a recovered diaconate
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The privilege of life-changing work
March 13, 2026 - Allan Ggita SJ is in Ireland speaking about his privileged life working with vulnerable communities in one of the largest slums in Kenya.
Our Mother Too: Mary Embraces the World
March 4, 2026 - Author Eric Clayton talks about his book that introduces children to Mary, the mother of Jesus, through eight apparitions around the world.
The challenge of co-creating
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‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
February 13, 2026 - The Vatican's second commission on the diaconate recently published a letter revealing a 50/50 split on whether women could 'image Christ'.
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Pope Video: For children with incurable diseases
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Pope video: For prayer with the word of God
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Pope video: For Christians in areas of conflict
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Faithful Justice: Reimagining the Jesuit Mission
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‘Dangerous as hell’
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