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JRS Ireland welcomes new faces
September 16, 2008
Two new staff members have recently taken up their posts with JRS Ireland. Rory Halpin SJ (pictured right) has arrived in Limerick, and is looking forward to the challenge of...
Read moreShort notices
September 16, 2008
President Mary McAleese, who will be conferred with a HDCL (Canon Law) in Milltown next month, has invited her former lecturer, Michael O’Sullivan (pictured right), to join the Forum she...
Read moreVolunteers begin JVC experience
September 16, 2008
Two young and enthusiastic volunteers have just moved into Ballymun for nine months of simple living and full-time voluntary service, in a programme of social analysis and reflection inspired by...
Read moreFaith and politics in Venice
September 16, 2008
Edmond Grace’s focus on politics and faith brought him to Venice for a week-long reflection on the topic, together with twenty-six young adults – the photo shows them outside San...
Read moreThe death of Fr Paddy Doyle SJ
September 16, 2008
Former Irish Jesuit Provincial Fr Paddy Doyle SJ died in Cherryfield in the early hours of Sunday morning. His body was in respose at Cherryfield on Tuesday Sept 16 at...
Read moreZambia’s lost leader
September 16, 2008
As the Zambian Jesuits mourn their dead president, their grief and sense of loss goes far beyond the conventional. Though Patrick Levy Mwanawasa was the third Zambian President, he was...
Read moreBusy partners
September 16, 2008
Joe Greenan and Deirdre Soffe, the Irish Jesuits’ Partners in Mission, have organised two workshops in the last month. They commissioned a website called jesuitlink, which uses the Moodle system...
Read moreSlí Eile runs social spirituality course
September 16, 2008
Sli Eile, the Jesuit ministry to young adults, is now enrolling applicants for its certificate course in social spirituality. The course entails weekly lectures from 30 September to June and...
Read moreProvincial’s tribute to Fr Michael Melvin RIP
September 14, 2008
Many tributes have been paid to the late Fr Michael Melvin SVD, director of kairos Communications in Maynooth. He died unexpectedly on Tuesday 9 September, aged 61. Jesuit Provincial John...
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