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Challenging the Congress
September 14, 2010
Peter McVerry’s call in the September Furrow is so forward-looking and trenchant that it deserves wide coverage. “ The Eucharistic Congress in 2012 will be a meaningless charade unless it...
Read moreNovices with a history
September 14, 2010
Two Irishmen, one joining the Birmingham noviciate, the other graduating, illustrate how different the scene is from twenty years ago. Shane Daly pronounced his vows of perpetual poverty, chastity and...
Read moreForthcoming events
September 14, 2010
15 September: ‘Studies’ conference entitled “Healing a broken Church? Catholicism after the Reports” will be held in Milltown Park, Sandford Road at 6pm 16 September: Gardiner St. Church – ‘Soul...
Read more‘Sli Eile’ relaunches as ‘Magis Ireland’
September 14, 2010
‘Sli Eile’, the Jesuit outreach to young adults, will be relaunched on Sunday 26 September as ‘Magis Ireland’, by the Irish Provincial Tom Layden. Already widely known as a force in young adult...
Read moreStudies pulls no punches
September 14, 2010
Ian Elliot, CEO of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church, is the guest speaker at the launch of a special edition of the Jesuit journal Studies, on...
Read moreIntercultural soccer festival
September 14, 2010
Limerick will play host to a new intercultural soccer festival, The Limerick Sixes Soccer World Cup 2010, which will take place on Saturday, 25 September between 11am-7pm in the grounds...
Read moreA week in Venice
September 14, 2010
A group of nearly 30 young people recently attended the third Faith and Politics Workshop in the Jesuits’ University Hostel in Venice, Italy. One of the organisers of this two-yearly...
Read moreShort notices
September 14, 2010
Last week saw the departure from the Office of Partners in Mission in the Irish Jesuit Curia of Deirdre Soffe, who is moving with her husband to Qatar. “I would...
Read moreKeeping the oxen healthy
September 14, 2010
After reading in the last issue of AMDG Express about Michael Hanly’s bee-keeping project in Malawi, Richard O’Dwyer plans a workshop in Southern Sudan to get something similar under way....
Read moreJESUITICA: Answering back
September 14, 2010
Do Jesuits ever answer back? Our archives hold an exchange between Fr Bernard Page SJ, an army chaplain, and his Provincial, T.V.Nolan, who had passed on a complaint from an...
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