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Schools and the Ignatian vision
November 25, 2008
There was a full house in Colaiste Iognáid’s school library on 18th November to hear the Irish Jesuit Provincial, John Dardis SJ, and his colleague Jim Corkery SJ (pictured here...
Read moreSchool retreat with a difference
November 25, 2008
Each Tuesday a group of about forty 6th year/5th year boys and girls from St Marks community School, Tallaght, visit Gardiner St Church, where Fr Donal Neary PP talks of...
Read more100,000 Messengers go out
November 25, 2008
The Irish Jesuits are giving away over one hundred thousand copies of The Messenger magazine this Sunday Nov 30th 2008. The Messenger is the biggest selling magazine in Ireland, with...
Read moreJRS responds to crisis in DR Congo
November 25, 2008
Though the ceasefire announced last month in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to be still holding, all is far from well there. There continue to be many reports of...
Read moreJews are smarter
November 25, 2008
AMDG Express had two Jewish stories last week (John McDade on Israel our brother, and Hugh O’Flaherty, Righteous among the Gentiles). This week Thomas Casey SJ becomes our man in Jerusalem....
Read moreMurdered in Limerick
November 18, 2008
Shane Geoghegan, who was murdered in Limerick on 9th November, in a case of mistaken identity, was a past pupil of Crescent College Comprehensive. When he graduated in 1999, his...
Read moreAngles on Hugh O’Flaherty
November 18, 2008
Jesuit Archives and Todd Morrissey SJ helped TnaG make a documentary on Mgr Hugh O’Flaherty, the extrarodinary Kerry-born, Mungret-educated priest who saved the lives of thousands of Jews and Allied...
Read morePeter McVerry stirs up the drugs debate
November 18, 2008
The Northside People West on 12 November published an interview with Peter McVerry SJ in which he urged a discussion of the legalisation of all drugs. “We have already legalised...
Read moreIsrael, our elder brother
November 18, 2008
In a public lecture given at Haddington Road Church, John McDade SJ, Principal of Heythrop College, explored Catholic-Jewish relations since Vatican II. He drew twice the usual attendance at this lecture series....
Read moreFr Sullivan: the last witness
November 18, 2008
Fr John Fitzgerald SJ, the last surviving Jesuit to have been taught in Clongowes by Fr John Sullivan, shared some precious memories at the commemorative Mass which takes place in...
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