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Commemorating slain Jesuits

November 4, 2008

A memorial service will be held in Novosibirsk on 29 November for the Otto Messmer SJ and Viktor Betancourt SJ, the two Jesuit priests who were brutally murdered in Moscow...

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Short Notices

November 4, 2008

As the picture shows, the bulldozers finally tackled the old Cherryfield on Monday, 3 November. This Friday and Saturday, 7-8 November, the Milltown Institute will host an International Pastoral Conference...

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Ireland funds African projects

November 4, 2008

The Jesuit Mission Office works hard to raise funds for a variety of projects in different parts of the world, and recently Murt Curry and his colleagues in the office...

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The Pilgrims

November 4, 2008

Seven Jesuits have just returned from a long-planned pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Donal Neary and Derek Cassidy had gone ahead to prepare the way for them, checking on places...

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Canon of Shyogwe

November 4, 2008

AMDG Express inflitrated the Synod of Dublin and Glendalough to get this picture of a now-familiar face, Ken Rue, financial director of the Messenger. Ken is studying for ministry in...

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Making news

November 4, 2008

Three Jesuits were in the national news last week. John Dardis, on RTE’s News at One, talked to Sean O’Rourke about the two Jesuits murdered in Moscow. Edmond Grace has...

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Belvedere remembers the Armistice

November 3, 2008

On 9th November at 10 a.m. in the Belvedere College Chapel, Fr Derek Cassidy SJ will celebrate a Mass to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, and to...

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Jim Hayes SJ

November 3, 2008

AMDG Express has saluted two of the Irish Jesuits working in Britain: Kieran Barry-Ryan and (post-humously) Jack Donovan. Jack’s near-contemporary, Jim Hayes, is living in Liverpool, but for many years...

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Peter Hannan on the Holy Spirit

November 3, 2008

Since he returned from the Zambian mission, Peter Hannan SJ has been living a special sort of life in Manresa, rising in the very small hours, studying, writing and praying...

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