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Missions day out
July 9, 2010
The annual day-out of the Jesuit Mission Office on 30 June had a motley group of missionaries, friends, volunteers and Mission Office staff descend on some of the best known...
Read moreShort Notices
July 9, 2010
The sub-title of Fr Todd Morrissey’s latest book on Fr Tom Ryan (the launch was noticed in our last issue) was From Cork to China and Windsor Castle, Last week Fr...
Read moreForthcoming events
July 9, 2010
24 July: 2-Peak Wicklow Challenge: McVerry Trust fundraiser – see Short Notices above 24-30 July: Hopkins International Festival opens in Newbridge College, 4 p.m. on 24 July. See programme on...
Read moreSt Ignatius day celebrations
July 9, 2010
Jesuits around the world will mark the feast day of their founder St Ignatius of Loyola,on Sat 31 July. In Dublin, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will celebrate a special Mass in...
Read moreNot-so-‘final curtain!’
July 9, 2010
Historian Todd Morrissey SJ launched the third volume of Fr Kevin Laheen’s History of Tullabeg, The Final Curtain, in Milltown Park on Wednesday 30 June, now available in the Sacred...
Read moreBelvedere is fast
July 9, 2010
Belvedere College SJ continued their dominance of the All-Ireland schools athletics championships this year. They were once again the overall winners of the Science cup, which is the trophy presented to...
Read moreIrish Jesuit in top publishing post
July 9, 2010
Irish Jesuit Paul Campbell has been made Publisher of Loyola Press, the Jesuit publishing company in Chicago whose titles include the 100,000-copy bestseller My Life with the Saints by James...
Read moreJESUITICA: The unstoppable Pere Marquette
July 9, 2010
A century ago the states of Michican, Ohio, Indiana and Ontario, in USA and Canada, saw many locomotives and rail ferries named after a Jesuit. The Pere Marquette Railway operated in...
Read moreLeeson Street century
July 9, 2010
It is a hundred years since the Jesuit community in what is now Newman House moved round the corner to 35 Lower Leeson Street; they would later acquire Numbers 36...
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