20110111

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...

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New 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...

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Forthcoming 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...

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Collecting 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...

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Short 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....

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Centres 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...

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Our 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...

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Tom 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...

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The 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...

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Gonzaga 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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