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Presidential visit to ‘The Jes’

March 10, 2009

President Mary McAleese visited Coláiste Iognáid on Wednesday 4 March and addressed the school, staff and parents’ groups. The President viewed a number of display boards in the foyer and...

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Making links: spirituality and medicine

March 10, 2009

At the invitation of Dr. Jack Lambert, coordinator of  Professional Clinical Practice in the UCD School of Medicine and Consultant at the Mater Hospital, Fr. Paddy Carberry, S.J., Director of...

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Entering the blogosphere

March 10, 2009

Fergus O’Donoghue SJ is continuing the work he does through Studies, the quarterly journal of which he is editor, by blogging daily on matters mostly related to Irish politics, culture...

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Football in Foynes

March 10, 2009

A joint initiative between JRS Ireland and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) for asylum seekers who are residents in Mount Trenchard, Foynes commenced with a Soccer Open Day on...

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Ballymun choir bang out the hits

March 10, 2009

The Ballymun Gospel Choir, one of the foremost choirs of its kind in the country, is hosting an evening of “electric gospel music” on Saturday, 14 March, in St Anne’s...

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A Text from God

March 10, 2009

Over 120 students signed up for Coláiste Iognáid’s daily Gospel Text programme. There were Lenten options for a meditation group, blogging, MP3 downloads and praying on-line, but it was the...

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Mass cards in focus

March 10, 2009

The Charities Bill, signed by President McAleese last month,  makes it a criminal offence to sell a Mass card that is not authorised by a Catholic bishop. The measure was...

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JESUITICA: A Jesuit with perspective

March 10, 2009

The most influential Jesuit painter was Brother Andrea Pozzo, who wrote a seminal book on perspective in painting and architecture (1693). It has gone into many editions, even into this...

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Short Notices

March 10, 2009

Next Friday, 13 March in St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street, at 8 p.m., Laurence Freeman OSB will give a talk: Silence in the City, on Christian meditation in the John...

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Are we global?

March 10, 2009

On February 19 Father General Adolfo Nicolas wrote a letter on “The Universal Vocation of the Jesuit”.  It was a meaty reflection on the need to think globally, a need...

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