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CFJ: advocate for women offenders

November 11, 2008

Tony O’Riordan SJ was quoted by the Irish Examiner for his advocacy of non-custodial alternatives to prison for women offenders. Using the JCFJ’s research into female prisoners, he pointed out...

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Ex-pat Irish Jesuit recalls election night

November 11, 2008

There was no escaping the US Presidential election over the last two weeks, so AMDG Express sought a personal viewpoint from Donal Godfrey, the Cork-born Irish Jesuit who is head...

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Nobber meets Ballymun

November 11, 2008

As part of their ‘Faith in action’ religious education programme, a group of 18 Transition Year students from O’Carolan College, Nobber, Co. Meath, spent last Friday morning digging in with...

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Mission think-in

November 11, 2008

These busy Jesuits, Murt Curry, Willie Reynolds, Kevin O’Rourke, Colm Brophy and Liam O’Connell were photographed in Thornhill by a sixth busy Jesuit, John Guiney, during a think-in to explore...

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Radio has better pictures

November 11, 2008

Two students from Belvedere College, their teacher, and Oliver Murphy, historian and college museum curator were on ‘Today with Pat Kenny’ on Tuesday 11 November, the 90th anniversary of Armistice...

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Thirst for Scripture

November 11, 2008

A four-evening course on the Gospels of Mathew, Mark and Luke was the most widely attended of any adult faith evenings in Gardiner Street. In co-operation with Iona Rd parish,...

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Spirituality in Chicago

November 11, 2008

Michael O’Sullivan SJ, who teaches spirituality in the Milltown Institute, gave a paper in Chicago, USA, on ’Teaching Spirituality Well’ to the International Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality,...

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Prayer and money worries

November 11, 2008

The feedback from Sacred Space can be astonishing, a measure of where people’s concerns lie. In the last three months the Chapel of Intentions has shown many more Sacred Spacers...

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Short Notices

November 11, 2008

160 people attended the pastoral conference in Milltown on 8-9 November, the tenth event celebrating the Ruby Jubilee of the Milltown Institute. Timothy Radcliffe OP (pictured) gave a memorable address....

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In the news

November 11, 2008

The media this week have covered at least three Jesuit items besides Tony O’Riordan’s advocacy of female offenders, detailed above. The Irish Catholic featured John Dardis’s tribute to the two...

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