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Ballymun choir bang out the hits
March 10, 2009
The Ballymun Gospel Choir, one of the foremost choirs of its kind in the country, is hosting an evening of “electric gospel music” on Saturday, 14 March, in St Anne’s...
Read moreA Text from God
March 10, 2009
Over 120 students signed up for Coláiste Iognáid’s daily Gospel Text programme. There were Lenten options for a meditation group, blogging, MP3 downloads and praying on-line, but it was the...
Read moreMass cards in focus
March 10, 2009
The Charities Bill, signed by President McAleese last month, makes it a criminal offence to sell a Mass card that is not authorised by a Catholic bishop. The measure was...
Read moreJESUITICA: A Jesuit with perspective
March 10, 2009
The most influential Jesuit painter was Brother Andrea Pozzo, who wrote a seminal book on perspective in painting and architecture (1693). It has gone into many editions, even into this...
Read moreShort Notices
March 10, 2009
Next Friday, 13 March in St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street, at 8 p.m., Laurence Freeman OSB will give a talk: Silence in the City, on Christian meditation in the John...
Read moreAre we global?
March 10, 2009
On February 19 Father General Adolfo Nicolas wrote a letter on “The Universal Vocation of the Jesuit”. It was a meaty reflection on the need to think globally, a need...
Read moreKeeping the conversation going
March 3, 2009
Irish priests have suffered indiscriminate opprobrium for quite some time. They’re no longer on their own. “The doghouse no longer feels lonely,” says Fergus O’Donoghue SJ in the editorial of...
Read moreSex, Grace and Trinity
March 3, 2009
Edmond Grace SJ took part in what has been called a ‘Catholic sex’ debate in the Trinity College Philosophical Society. Among the speakers was Senator David Norris, and the session...
Read moreThe Crescent at 150
March 3, 2009
Crescent College Comprehensive S.J. first opened its doors on 10th March, 1859, one hundred and fifty yeras ago. Early Jesuit schools existed in Limerick between 1565 and 1773. David Woulfe...
Read moreSo you can’t forgive…?
March 3, 2009
Maureen Gaffney showed warm appreciation of Brian Lennon’s new book, So you can’t forgive…? as she launched it in Gardiner Street. She spoke first of the psychological blessings of forgiveness, how...
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‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
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