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Pioneers go global
June 23, 2009
The US-based Catholic network, Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), will broadcast an interview with Fr Barney McGuckian, S.J., spiritual director of the Pioneer Association on Thursday 25 June at 1.00am Irish...
Read moreMid-summer mission
June 23, 2009
On 21 June, 32 volunteers, who are travelling abroad with Sli Eile for some of their international programmes, were missioned by the Gardiner Street Congregation while the choir sang its last...
Read moreMilltown Summer School
June 23, 2009
The focus of the Ignatian Summer School at the Milltown Institute was on Social Discernment. The issue was this: Imagine you’re at a meeting where you may be the only person concerned...
Read moreThe Jes wins education grant
June 23, 2009
Coláiste Iognáid (the ‘Jes’) has won a Hewlett Packard Innovation in Education grant which will provide a mobile classroom of tablet PCs. Along with NUI Galway, the Galway school was...
Read moreCompanions on the journey
June 23, 2009
Jesuits and their colleagues who are leaving for a 9-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land next Monday had a Mass in Gardiner St on Sunday 21 June in preparation. Donal Neary...
Read moreJESUITICA: Jesuit left speechless
June 23, 2009
Many Jesuits are remembered for speaking out. One, however, should be remembered for keeping his mouth shut. In the early 1800s Anthony Kohlmann, a German Jesuit long resident in the...
Read moreShort Notices
June 23, 2009
At the Knock Youth Festival in July, Peter McVerry, the Jesuit who has devoted his life to working with Dublin’s homeless drug addicts, will discuss the power of Christian living....
Read moreCardinal launches MacGreil Survey
June 16, 2009
Micheál MacGréil opted for an internal launch of his report on religious attitudes in the Republic 2007-2008. John Cooney, who has always been fair to Micheál, gave the survey a...
Read moreSobering questions
June 16, 2009
On the day following the Dublin March for Abuse Victims, Provincial John Dardis met the heads of some ministries to reflect on serious questions: How could Religious lead such split lives, in which...
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JCFJ tackles housing
June 16, 2009
For several years, a common view of housing was that ‘the boom could only get boomier’, said Kathy Sheridan, Irish Times journalist, who launched ‘The Irish Housing System: Vision, Values,...
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‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
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