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Jesuits have sights on China
January 10, 2008
ZENIT news agency reports that Jesuits Have Sights on China: Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach spoke with L’Osservatore Romano about the Jesuits’ hopes to get back to China and other matters being...
Read moreChristy Murray RIP
January 10, 2008
Please pray for Rev. Brother Christopher Murray, S.J. who died at Cherryfield Lodge on 9 January 2008, aged 95 years. May he rest in peace.
Read moreJesuit Congregation begins in Rome
January 8, 2008
The Thirty-fifth General Congregation (GC35) of the Jesuits was formally opened in Rome on Monday 7 January. More than 220 Jesuits from around the world convened at the Jesuit Curia,...
Read moreBelvedere put rugby collection on show
January 8, 2008
Belvedere’s unique collection of rugby books and programmes, the Ray Carroll Rugby Collection, has been catalogued and housed in the Jesuit Library. Recent visitors – Edmund Van Esbeck (Irish Times), Seán...
Read moreDiving deeper in Galway
January 8, 2008
The Galway Centre of Spirituality ran a one-day course on Deepening Faith and Prayer on 5 January 2008. Seventeen people attended the course, which was given by Charlie Davey SJ,...
Read moreMarriage of spirituality and sexuality
January 8, 2008
Milltown Park is the venue for a two-weekend seminar on spirituality and sexuality. It will be given by Ab Straatman, a Dutch homeopath who has founded the Irish School of...
Read moreArt of Africa
January 8, 2008
Colm Brophy was back in Dublin recently to give the homily for Philip O’Keeffe SJ, who passed away before Christmas. They had come through Jesuit formation together and had lived...
Read moreMarking 40 years of Milltown
January 8, 2008
The Milltown Institute celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. This jubilee will be marked by a series of special lectures throughout the year. The opening Jubilee celebration takes place on...
Read moreHomily at the Opening Mass of GC35
January 7, 2008
His Eminence, the Most Reverend Franc Card. Rodé, C.M. Dear members of the xxxv General Congregation of the Society of Jesus St Ignatius considered the General Congregation “work and a...
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