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Liam Greene remembered in Galway
March 9, 2008
The late Liam Greene SJ will be specially remembered at the 11 o’clock mass in St Ignatius Church, Sea Road, Galway on Sunday 16 March 2008. John Humphries SJ will...
Read moreGospel Choir – in concert
March 7, 2008
The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir invites you to Saint Francis Xavier Church on Thursday 13 March at 8.00 pm. for what is essentially a free concert. The choir’s live performance...
Read moreGC35 adopts first three decrees
March 4, 2008
Three decrees have been adopted by the General Congregation in Rome in recent days. The first of them (29 February) concerns ‘Governance at the Service of the Universal Mission‘ and...
Read moreThe family today
March 4, 2008
The Irish family is not in crisis, but neither is it in full health. So argues Fergus O’Donoghue SJ in the editorial of the spring 2008 issue of Studies, which...
Read moreMr Frank Murphy, RIP
March 4, 2008
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Frank Murphy, father of Fr. James (Séamus) Murphy SJ, who died in Salthill, Galway. Funeral details will be published in Wednesday’s...
Read moreJCFJ book comes out in Spanish
March 4, 2008
A book produced by the Irish Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has recently been translated into Spanish and will now reach a much wider readership. The Development of Peoples:...
Read moreCan faith and politics mix?
March 4, 2008
Can faith inform secular affairs while respecting freedom of conscience? This is one of the questions up for discussion at the Sixth Slí Eile Pub Conversation, which will be held...
Read moreIs Love Enough? Action Makes Love Real
March 4, 2008
The Pobal Dé conference held in Milltown Park on Saturday 1 March was a great success. More than one hundred people attended. Below is the full text of Gerry O’Hanlon’s...
Read moreAddress of His Holiness Benedict XVI
February 27, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI's address to the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus
Read moreThe mystic and the Nazis
February 26, 2008
The University of Missouri Press has just included in its catalogue a book on Etty Hillesum by Meins Coetsier (pictured here), who spent some years in Ireland as a scholastic....
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GLOW: Girls learn their own worth
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