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Strange connections
April 11, 2006
April 11, 2006 Strange connections What has Tennessee Williams to do with the Jubilee Year? by Bernard McGuckian SJ Thomas Williams died on 23rd February 1983. He wasn’t Welsh as...
Read moreA prayer mission for our times
March 20, 2006
The internet is a vast new continent, and Sacred Space represents a new kind of mission there, one which has attracted a huge and growing following, explains Dermot Roantree. In...
Read moreAMDG – A world is not enough
March 20, 2006
The December 2005 issue of AMDG carried a story, “You didn’t know Ignatius was Irish?” In it Paul Campbell told about the new film on the first Jesuits. You can...
Read moreThe power of friendship
March 20, 2006
In the second and third of his articles on St Francis Xavier from The Messenger, Gerry Bourke explores the effect of the friendship of Ignatius Loyola and Peter Faber on...
Read moreNever go back: a refugee’s story
March 20, 2006
Egide Dhala, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, describes his experience of arriving in Ireland as a refugee and registers his gratitude to the JRS for their help. Jesuit Missionaries...
Read moreNew Indian Province created
March 20, 2006
Jesuit work flourishes in India A new Jesuit province was created last December in Delhi, India, bringing the number of Jesuit provinces in the Indian subcontinent to twenty. There...
Read moreWorking with lepers
March 20, 2006
St Francis Xavier was a frequent visitor to a house for lepers when he was in Goa. Now another Jesuit, Fr Luis Ruiz, in spite of his great age, works...
Read moreIf Francis were with us today
March 20, 2006
Patrick Carberry SJ reflects what St Francis Xavier has meant to him in the past and means for him now, and he imagines what the saint would have to say...
Read moreExchanging worldly for missionary ambition
March 20, 2006
A bare-bone summary of the fascinating and eventful life of one of Christianity’s greatest saints, St Francis Xavier, a life with a profound message and a long legacy. 2006 is...
Read moreTelling the Liberian story
February 20, 2006
Former Crescent pupil Liam Ó Cathasaigh prepares to go to Liberia with Colm Quinn to shoot a film about the work of the Jesuit Refugee Service there. This project is...
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