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New Co-Ordinator for Ecumenism
January 11, 2011
Brian O’Leary SJ has been appointed the new Province Co-ordinator for Ecumenism, replacing the now Provincial, Tom Layden. He says his role will be “to keep the ecumenical dimension of...
Read moreNew head at JCFJ
January 11, 2011
The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (JCFJ) has a new director: John K. Guiney SJ, who will also continue to be director of the Jesuit Mission Office. For the...
Read moreForthcoming events
January 11, 2011
11, 18, 25 January: ‘Steps-2-Serenity’ – series of 3 evenings in Manresa offering an opportunity for anyone in a 12-step programme prayerful reflection and meditation. For further information, phone 01-8331352...
Read moreCollecting in the cold
January 11, 2011
The Annual Belvedere College Sleep-Out and Fast 2010 raised €111,000 for charities for the homeless: Fr. Peter McVerry Trust, Focus Ireland and Home Again Society. Facing the worst conditions ever...
Read moreShort Notices
January 11, 2011
Jesuit schoolboys Ed Byrne (Clongowes, pictured) and Gonzaga’s James Fitzpatrick worked hard for Ireland’s rugby Under-18s against England. Ed scored a sweet try under the posts. James’s tackling and tactical kicking were superb....
Read moreCentres of reconciliation
January 11, 2011
Reconciliation, and the support of community effort, have always engaged Iona, the small Jesuit group in Portadown. In the last two months all four of them travelled to Limerick to study parallel...
Read moreOur man in S.F.
January 11, 2011
Perceptive readers will have noticed that the report on Declan Deane’s funeral in California, USA, was from Donal Godfrey; they may wonder what this Cork-born Jesuit is doing in the land...
Read moreTom survives a battering
January 11, 2011
Galway-born Tom McGivern SJ was locking up Chula House in Lusaka, Zambia, on Thursday evening when he was set upon by a thug demanding money. Tom had very little, and...
Read moreThe hills are alive with the sound of music
January 7, 2011
From the centre of snow-bound Munich, Irish Jesuit Niall Leahy (Niall Senior, not novice Niall) has given us a glimpse of an attractive pastoral side of his ministry. He has...
Read moreGonzaga galaxy
January 6, 2011
This is the year that the Gonzaga class of 1972 (25 boys) came into its own, with an unusual range of services to the country. Two of its lawyers head respectively Ireland’s...
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