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CCC student teachers
May 5, 2009
A number of Transition Year students from Crescent have just completed a learning initiative with St. Munchin’s Girls and Infant School, Ballynanty, on the north side of Limerick. The aim...
Read moreCome and see
May 5, 2009
Twice a year, the Jesuit Joint Irish-British Novitiate in Birmingham hosts a Come & See for those interested in seeing real novitiate life. This last weekend a Polish sports teacher...
Read moreGuiney in Asia
May 5, 2009
John Guiney SJ (centre in photo), just back from Asia, saw the impact of the Irish Jesuits in the East from Japan to Hong Kong, Cambodia and Signapore as expressed by...
Read moreUlster plantation remembered
May 5, 2009
2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the Ulster Plantation, a critical episode in Irish history when English and Scottish planters were settled on confiscated lands in the north. This influx...
Read moreIn Thurles the disciples were first called Jesuits
May 5, 2009
The late Archbishop Tom Morris loved showing his cathedral in Thurles to visiting Jesuits because of its links with the Society. Kevin Laheen SJ remembers one such meeting, when Tom...
Read moreShort notices
May 5, 2009
In Leinster’s Heineken Cup semi-final win over Munster, Clongownian Gordon D’Arcy, pictured here with the ball, scored Leinster’s opening try, and Belvederian Cian Healy contributed mightily in the front row....
Read moreWelcoming into the Church
May 5, 2009
At the Easter vigil Mass in Gardiner Street church this year, Dusan Sabol, a UCD student from Slovakia, was fully received into the Catholic Church, after a few years of...
Read moreJESUITICA: Clerical dress
May 5, 2009
Matteo Ricci SJ, a very innovative Jesuit missionary who lived in China from 1582 until his death in 1610, described Jesuit dress at the court of the Ming Emperor: “We have let our beards...
Read moreMalta – douze points!
May 5, 2009
Speaking at the last Province Assembly, Fr Mark Rotsaert SJ spoke of the important reference to communications in the GC35 documents. He endorsed the work of the Jesuit Communications Centre...
Read moreForthcoming events
May 5, 2009
On 6 May St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, is hosting a symposium: “Hints of glory: transcendence and the Arts”. Details from [email protected] or phone 01-7083349. The ‘Fun of Sport’, organised by...
Read moreLatest News
Climate workshop in Milltown
March 22, 2023 - The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice ran a climate workshop in Milltown to explain the science behind climate change and to encourage people to address it in their lives.
The ‘beautiful’ shepherd
March 22, 2023 - Aidan Mathews' Lenten retreat focuses on the parable of the Good Shepherd, with an interesting commentary on the appropriateness of the translation of the word 'good'
Pope Francis: The ‘zig-zag Pope’
March 22, 2023 - Gerry Whelan SJ, Director of the Department of Fundamental Theology in the Gregorian University in Rome assesses the last ten years of Pope Francis' papacy.
‘Reimagining Religion’
March 22, 2023 - Jim Maher SJ's book @Reimagining Religion' addresses a fundamental spiritual malaise that expresses itself through injustice, wars, xenophobia, narcissism, exclusion, and other dehumanising behaviours.
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Words matter
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