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Conchita McDonnell MSHR elected new CORI President
June 10, 2008
Sr Conchita McDonnell, a Holy Rosary Sister, was last week elected the President of CORI – the Conference of Religious of Ireland. Through its fifteen elected executive members, CORI serves...
Read morePreparing for the Pope
June 10, 2008
Noelle Fitzpatrick will lead the group of young people travelling with Slí Eile to the Magis-World Youth Day celebrations in Sydney, Australia in July 2008. The group met for a...
Read moreBelvedere Youth Club celebrates 90th year
June 10, 2008
Belvedere Youth Club held a special mass and a concert in April to celebrate their 90th year in operation. Their after-schools programme continues to see more than 160 children a...
Read moreLRA gets new president
June 10, 2008
The Lay Retreat Association (LRA) elected a new president, John Redmond, at its AGM on 20 May in Milltown Park. The outgoing president, Pat Carey, suffered a stroke recently. Though...
Read more“I’m voting yes, and here’s why”
June 9, 2008
Edmond Grace SJ, author of Democracy and Public Happiness, sees the Lisbon Treaty as necessary for the smooth and coherent functioning of the European Union. The old rubrics of government,...
Read moreAnnual meeting of Social Apostolate coordinators
June 9, 2008
Brendan Mac Partlin SJ was in Rome as one of the European representatives at the Social Apostolate coordinators annual meeting from 26 to 31 May. They met to look at...
Read moreNoel Barber SJ lays Terry Keane to rest
June 6, 2008
The funeral Mass for Irish journalist and socialite Terry Keane was said by Fr Noel Barber SJ, a family friend. In the eulogy he delivered in the Church of St...
Read moreGuiney in Toronto
June 6, 2008
On Thursday, May 29, John Guiney, SJ visited the Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) office in Toronto. The visit included a conversation with CJI and Curia staff, which focused on his...
Read moreSlí Eile volunteering review
June 6, 2008
Slí Eile are currently carying out a review of their international volunteering projects, examining questions of effectiveness, cost-benefit, sustainability and volunteer impact. An external consulant, Kieran Brehony, has been hired...
Read moreIreland’s literary patron saint
June 3, 2008
In the May issue of America Magazine, Irish Jesuit Tom Casey writes an incisive article on what we have to learn from Ireland’s unofficial, or literary, ‘patron saint’ – Leopold...
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GLOW: Girls learn their own worth
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