20081216

Gifts galore

December 16, 2008

Irish Jesuit Paul Campbell SJ of Loyola Press Chicago has sent the Jesuit Communication Centre twenty promotional copies of their 2009 calendar. For each month there is a poster with...

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Milltown’s Ruby party

December 16, 2008

Vice-Chancellor Fr John Dardis and Acting President Fr Conn Casey C.SS.R. (pictured together here) invited all those who have worked in the Milltown Institute over its forty years of existence...

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President Mary McAleese at USF

December 16, 2008

On 11 December the Jesuit University of San Francisco conferred on President Mary McAleese the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. The citation noted that her presidency has...

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Fr Assistant completes his visit

December 16, 2008

After a crowded itinerary, in which he looked, listened and learned about every ministry in the Province, Antoine Kerhuel is heading home on 17 December, leaving behind a wholesome taste...

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Sartre in Bethlehem

December 16, 2008

55 years ago a Jesuit fellow-student in Munich gave Paul Andrews a remarkable typescript: Christmas writing from an unexpected source. In the autumn of 1940 the Nazis captured and deported...

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Death of Avery Dulles, SJ

December 16, 2008

Tributes from around the world have been paid to the late Avery Dulles SJ, one of the world’s most renowned Jesuits and a Cardinal since 2001. He died at 9am...

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Spirituality for a time of bewilderment

December 16, 2008

Theologian Gerry O’Hanlon SJ works at the Centre for Faith and Justice, and lives in a corporation estate in Cherry Orchard, at the far end of Ballyfermot. He sees the...

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Short notices

December 16, 2008

An Inter-Institutional Centre for Spirituality and Social Transformation has been launched in Waterford Institute of Technology, through the participation (pictured here) of Michael O’Sullivan SJ (Milltown Institute), Sister Bernadette Flanagan...

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Fr Joseph A. Kelly SJ

December 16, 2008

“Some people become priests because they love God, some because they love talking about God, and some, like Fr Joe Kelly, because they love people.” Joe had moved from Dublin...

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