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Art and the spiritual
November 18, 2008
On the 6th November Colm Brophy SJ led ten spiritual directors in a Galway workshop on art. His first objective was to free them from any perfectionism, or sense of...
Read moreIn the news
November 18, 2008
As well as Fr Todd Morrissy, Jesuit historian, featuring on the TG4 documentary on the life of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, Cathy Molloy, theologian with the Jesuit Centre for Faith and...
Read moreNo continental divide
November 18, 2008
The Jesuit-run parish of Matero in Lusaka, Zambia this week linked up offcially with Star of the Sea Parish, Sandymount, Dublin. Fr Leonard Chiti SJ spoke at all masses in the...
Read moreRichard O’Dwyer in Addis Ababa
November 18, 2008
Richard O’Dwyer SJ has been assigned to work with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Ethiopia for the next two or three years, and he generously registered his first impressions of...
Read moreInduction course at IMI
November 18, 2008
The Partners in Mission office hosted an induction course on 13 November for a group of seven people who have recently begun working with various apostolates in the Province. The...
Read moreGonzaga hosts fundraisers
November 18, 2008
Fiachra Etchingham, Director of Finance at Gonzaga College (visible behind the magnificent beech tree in picture), assembled representatives of 12 Dublin schools including Gonzaga, Belvedere and Clongowes, to pool their...
Read moreShort notices
November 18, 2008
A meeting of the Pastoral Coordinators from the Jesuit Schools took place in Clongowes, 6-7 Nov, to look at the RE programmes in place and to share resources and best...
Read moreCFJ: advocate for women offenders
November 11, 2008
Tony O’Riordan SJ was quoted by the Irish Examiner for his advocacy of non-custodial alternatives to prison for women offenders. Using the JCFJ’s research into female prisoners, he pointed out...
Read moreEx-pat Irish Jesuit recalls election night
November 11, 2008
There was no escaping the US Presidential election over the last two weeks, so AMDG Express sought a personal viewpoint from Donal Godfrey, the Cork-born Irish Jesuit who is head...
Read moreNobber meets Ballymun
November 11, 2008
As part of their ‘Faith in action’ religious education programme, a group of 18 Transition Year students from O’Carolan College, Nobber, Co. Meath, spent last Friday morning digging in with...
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