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Is Henry really a Jesuit?
January 6, 2009
An article in the Irish News of 5 January recalled the reconciliation work of Henry Grant SJ twenty years ago. One of the Protestants who attended Henry’s workshops was John...
Read moreHelp name a new Jesuit Website!
January 6, 2009
Conall O’Cuinn SJ, Irish Jesuit Vocations Director, is working with web developer Shane Lyons to develop a new website which aims to help people who have had a ‘call’ experience...
Read moreShort notices
January 6, 2009
Sr Avril O’Regan RLR will lead a series of seminars in Manresa on ‘Movies that Matter’. Participants will view a film and then reflect together, through the eyes of faith,...
Read moreA life of passion: Peter McVerry SJ
January 6, 2009
“There’s an orderly kind of aimlessness in the basement of 26 Sherrard Street…” So begins Kathy Sheridan’s Saturday Interview with Peter McVerry SJ in the Irish Times, 20 December 2008....
Read moreLosing John Dunne
January 6, 2009
In the consciousness of Irish Jesuits, the dominant mood this Epiphany is of loss. It is just a week since we buried John Dunne, who had been Socius (companion, secretary,...
Read moreEpiphany evening in Cherryfield
December 31, 2008
Rachel McNeill and the staff of Cherryfield extend a warm invitation to Jesuits and friends to join them on 6th January, any time between 5 and 8 p.m., for refreshments...
Read moreJohn Dunne SJ RIP
December 27, 2008
Fr John Dunne SJ died peacefully at 10:30 am on the morning of 27 December 2008, the Feast of John the Evangelist. He was commended to the Lord by the...
Read moreGifts galore
December 16, 2008
Irish Jesuit Paul Campbell SJ of Loyola Press Chicago has sent the Jesuit Communication Centre twenty promotional copies of their 2009 calendar. For each month there is a poster with...
Read moreMilltown’s Ruby party
December 16, 2008
Vice-Chancellor Fr John Dardis and Acting President Fr Conn Casey C.SS.R. (pictured together here) invited all those who have worked in the Milltown Institute over its forty years of existence...
Read morePresident Mary McAleese at USF
December 16, 2008
On 11 December the Jesuit University of San Francisco conferred on President Mary McAleese the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. The citation noted that her presidency has...
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The privilege of life-changing work
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Our Mother Too: Mary Embraces the World
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The challenge of co-creating
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‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
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Pope Video: For children with incurable diseases
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Theology in a changing world
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