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University chaplains on in-service day

May 12, 2009

CN3 (Chaplains Network at Third Level) had its Spring in-service day at St. Stephen’s chaplaincy, UCD Belfield, on Friday 8 May. The topic: how to communicate, to an increasingly secular...

JESUITICA: Early ecumenism

May 12, 2009

In 1687 a multi-denominational Jesuit school in Edinburgh described its ethos: “There shall be all freedom for everyone to practise what Religion he shall please. None shall upbraid or reproach...

CCC student teachers

May 5, 2009

A number of Transition Year students from Crescent have just completed a learning initiative with St. Munchin’s Girls and Infant School, Ballynanty, on the north side of Limerick. The aim...

Come and see

May 5, 2009

Twice a year, the Jesuit Joint Irish-British Novitiate in Birmingham hosts a Come & See for those interested in seeing real novitiate life. This last weekend a Polish sports teacher...

Welcoming into the Church

May 5, 2009

At the Easter vigil Mass in Gardiner Street church this year, Dusan Sabol, a UCD student from Slovakia, was fully received into the Catholic Church, after a few years of...

Learn to discern

April 28, 2009

The School on Ignatian Spirituality held in the Milltown Institute in 2008 was highly successful, so little wonder that the Institute will run a follow-up course this year from 15...

African Immersion Experience III

April 21, 2009

Michael Sheil SJ has just returned from Lesotho with a group of Clongowes boys, the third group to take on the African Immersion Experience since it started in 2007. This...

Fr Provincial in Asia

April 21, 2009

Mission Office Director John Guiney and Provincial John Dardis (right in photo, Freddie Deignan SJ on left) have just returned from a visit to Irish Jesuits working in Japan, Hong...

A respectable scholar

April 7, 2009

When Denis Leonard (pictured left) was a student at Crescent in the 1950s, his mother received a letter from Fr O’Beirne, Prefect of Studies, noting that Denis had improved of...

Crescent celebrates on the double

April 7, 2009

Limerick’s Crescent College Comprehensive SJ had double cause for celebration on the weekend of 28th and 29th March, 2009. As it continued its celebrations for its sesquicentenary, it also emerged...

Reflections on a philosophical giant

June 4, 2026 - Dr Dermot Roantree discusses some of the main themes in the thought of Jürgen Habermas, the German philosopher who died recently.

GLOW: Girls learn their own worth

June 3, 2026 - Caroline Sanga discusses life in South Sudan and how Jesuit programmes are empowering girls and women through education and farming initiatives.

Fascinating facts from our past

May 20, 2026 - Damien Burke, archivist for the Irish Jesuit Province, has been casting a beady eye over the 1926 census just released online. It has a lot to tell us.

Restoring women to a recovered diaconate

April 2, 2026 - Dr Phyllis  Zagano continues her straight-talking exposition of the history of deacons in the church. She seeks to 'recover' the diaconate and 'restore' women to it.

The privilege of life-changing work

March 13, 2026 - Allan Ggita SJ is in Ireland speaking about his privileged life working with vulnerable communities in one of the largest slums in Kenya.

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