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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...

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Novices 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...

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Forthcoming 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...

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‘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...

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Studies 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...

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Intercultural 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...

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A 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...

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Short 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...

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Keeping 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....

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JESUITICA: 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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