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Milltown 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,...
Read moreAn Timire ag dul ar aghaidh
June 16, 2009
An Timire and FÁS have taken on a new manager in a drive to promote Irish-language publications. Fionnuala Mac Aodha (pictured here) will manage both operations from the Messenger office...
Read moreJRS and local elections
June 16, 2009
Eugene Quinn, National Director of JRS Ireland responded to allegations by some local election candidates that migrants have not contributed to Irish society as “fundamentally unfair”. In a contribution to...
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Healing for the soul
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‘The Soul Also Keeps the Score’
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