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Doing all one can
May 20, 2015
Fr Bernard Arputhasamy SJ, who is getting medical treatment in Ireland at present, is the director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Jordan. The work is never-ending, and one has...
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Anzac, archives and the bullshit detector
May 6, 2015
DAMIEN BURKE :: Six Jesuits, five of them Irish-born, served with the Anzac forces at Gallipoli. There are good reasons to commemorate this ill-fated event. Jingoism, however, is not one...
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Yes or No?
May 6, 2015
The Jesuit Centre of Spirituality and Culture in Galway is organizing a workshop aimed at helping people in their decision making regarding the upcoming referendum on same-sex marriage on 22...
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Jesuit Mission Offices meet
May 6, 2015
A truly international meeting of people working in Jesuit Missions Offices took place recently in Emmaus, Dublin. It finished with Tom Phelan SJ and his band leading an evening of...
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REVIEW: The Avengers: Age of Ultron
May 6, 2015
FILM REVIEW FROM AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC OFFICE FOR FILM AND BROADCASTING :: This recent release is an entertaining, worthy successor to the Marvel Avenger movies that have preceded it
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Exploring Jesuit life
May 6, 2015
The Four Provinces Novitiate based in Birmingham held a weekend for prospective novices in March 2015. There were five young men from different backgrounds and cultures all interested in exploring...
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Frontiers of fear
May 1, 2015
Jesuit Missions Office director, John K Guiney SJ, recalls a recent meeting of Social Delegates in Nador, Morocco, which reflected on Jesuit work with migrants in the fraught borderlands between...
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Following your nose
April 17, 2015
PAULA NOLAN :: In the past the world was full of 'people smells', but many of them were replaced by the scents of the cosmetic/pharmaceutical industry. All the old smells...
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“My brother” – his killer
April 15, 2015
"My brother": the last two words of Fr Frans van der Lugt SJ, spoken to his killer who shot him twice at point-blank range. Irish Jesuit Missions Office have made...
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Ministering in an LGBT-friendly way
April 14, 2015
Irish-born Jesuit Fr Donal Godfrey features in an article in the National Catholic Reporter, describing the Most Holy Redeemer parish in San Francisco, which has a long history of ministering...
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The privilege of life-changing work
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Our Mother Too: Mary Embraces the World
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‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
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Pray with the Pope: For priests in crisis
April 13, 2026 - Pope Leo XIV: In the spirit of the Gospel, we are invited to recognize our shared responsibility in supporting, encouraging and accompanying priests.
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March 13, 2026 - Pope Leo: Renounce weapons and the arms race. May leaders have the courage to choose dialogue instead of conflict.
Pope Video: For children with incurable diseases
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January 9, 2026 - Pope Video: "May your Word be nourishment in weariness, hope in darkness and strength in our communities"
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Is the universe ‘done and dusted’?
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Faithful Justice: Reimagining the Jesuit Mission
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‘Dangerous as hell’
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Theology in a changing world
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