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‘Crescent’ bridge from poverty to prosperity
January 26, 2010
Students of Crescent College Comprehensive were told by President Mary McAleese that they carried with them an ‘imprint of Jesuit education, a character which doesn’t change’. Speaking at a closing...
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January 26, 2010
Coláiste Iognáid’s 5th Year Kairos retreat was held this year in Dromantine, Newry from 22-25 January. 37 students took part in a full programme of talks, group work and liturgies....
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Fr Jean Yves Calvez SJ
January 26, 2010
Renowned French theologian and philosopher Jean-Yves Calvez SJ died in Paris on 11 January, aged 82. For half a century he was well established as a deep and innovative thinker...
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The Holocaust by bullets
January 26, 2010
On Monday evening, 18 January 2010, the day after the Pope’s historic visit to the Rome Synagogue, another historic visit occurred. Representatives from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, prelates from...
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January 26, 2010
26 January: Psychologist David Coleman fundraising lecture, “Getting Your Child through their Teens in the ‘Teenies’ “. Belvedere College, Gt. Denmark St., Dublin 1. 7.30pm 1 February: Soul night –...
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JRS serves 16,000 quake victims
January 21, 2010
The Jesuit Refugee Service has provided emergency relief in the form of food, medicine, tents and debris-removal tools to about 16,000 citizens of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to aid their recovery from last...
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News from the Jesuits in Haiti
January 19, 2010
[from SJWeb.info] We reprint a letter from Father Kawas François, S.J. to the French Canada Provincial, Father Daniel LeBlond, S.J., describing the condition of the Jesuits, their residences and apostolates...
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John Dardis SJ appointed head of CEP
January 12, 2010
John Dardis SJ has been appointed president of the Conference of European Provincials and will take up his post at the end of October. He has been Provincial of Ireland...
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Cecil McGarry SJ Memorial Fund
January 12, 2010
The Eastern Africa Province of the Society of Jesus has established a memorial fund to honour the life and memory of Fr Cecil McGarry SJ. Cecil, who died in Nairobi,...
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JRS calendar available for 2010
January 12, 2010
JRS Ireland’s Intercultural and Interfaith Calendar 2010 is available now. Aimed at raising awareness of diversity in Ireland, it marks the feast days of many faiths as well as national...
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‘The Soul Also Keeps the Score’
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‘The grandeur of humanity’
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