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Forthcoming events

December 7, 2010

6-10 December: Adult Triduum, directed by Fr. Piaras Jackson SJ in Manresa, Dollymount, Dublin 3. Further information, contact 01 8334352 3-17 December: Belvedere College ‘Austrian Exchange’. For further information, contact...

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Galway: tossing and turning

December 7, 2010

The pictures in this Picasa album should possibly carry a health warning for those who knew and loved the old Colaiste Iognaid. It is hard to look unmoved at the demise...

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Nijmegen: Not merging but meeting

December 7, 2010

While Ireland is fretting over the loss of economic sovereignty to ECB and IMF, the Jesuits of four West European Provinces (North Belgium, Netherlands, Britain and Ireland) are observing the process...

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Exploring the ‘Song of Songs’

December 7, 2010

Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity, USA, will give a public lecture on ‘Retrieving the Song of Songs for Today’ Tuesday, 7 December, at All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. Her...

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Rwanda: nothing disappeared

December 7, 2010

The picture regularly topping the front page of AMDG Express shows Gerry Clarke SJ officiating in priestly garb at a JRS camp in Congo. He is in Rwanda now, and his worries...

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Voices from the pews

December 7, 2010

When Cardinal Sean Brady invited the faithful to tell him their concerns for the Church, he did not specify how this was to happen. In Belfast Alan McGuckian SJ and...

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AIDS: the central issue

December 7, 2010

The annual Fr Michael Kelly lecture: HIV and AIDS: Accomplishments and Enduring Challenges, was  given by the erudite Michael himself (pictured here), as part  of a 2-day conference in Maynooth to...

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The future of religion

December 7, 2010

“Shall the religious inherit the earth?” So asks Eric Kaufmann of Birkbeck College, London, in the lead article in the winter issue of Studies, which centres on the theme of...

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Short Notices

December 7, 2010

The latest talk in the Clongowes Leadership Series (Becoming men for others) was given in Dublin’s RDS by Nick Hewer, who left Clongowes in 1962, and now works with Alan...

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JESUITICA: Honesty and good faith

December 7, 2010

Clongowes, which now seems so comfortably established, could easily have been still-born. In February 1814 Fr Peter Kenney interviewed the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Robert Peel, to defend his...

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