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Forthcoming events

June 21, 2011

Thursday 23, Tuesday 28, Thursday 30 June: Lectures and retreat by Brother Martin O.S.B. from India in Jesuit Conference Centre, Milltown Park, Dublin 6 at 7pm. Information from Justin Carty...

Belvedere’s athletes were once again crowned All Ireland schools champions. As he lifted the Science cup for the school’s record fifteenth time in succession, Coach Colin McCarthy (pictured), paid tribute...

Pulling blocks

June 21, 2011

Two days ago, 50 Belvederians started their walk from Dublin to Galway, pulling large, square, decorated blocks on wheels, to raise money for St Francis Hospice, Temple Street Hospital, and...

Mistrusting the Elite

June 21, 2011

This week readers of the Irish Times will have noticed three articles on successive days by Edmond Grace. He is an Irish Jesuit with legal training, who has lectured in...

Trinity at Taizé

June 21, 2011

Peter Sexton, the Jesuit chaplain in Trinity College, and his Methodist colleague Julian Hamilton, accompanied eight students on the annual pilgrimage to Taizé in Burgundy. Five of the eight were...

Funding the Missions

June 21, 2011

The Jesuit Mission Office, working in an old terraced house off Gardiner Street, focuses mainly on the Irish Jesuit mission in Zambia and Malawi; but it has a broader brief especially...

Language skills for immigrants

June 21, 2011

Over ninety immigrants from more than thirty countries attended Belvedere English Language Lessons (BELL), a series of one-to-one classes co-organised by Belvedere College and the Jesuit Refugee Service. The organiser...

JESUITICA: starting cities

June 21, 2011

In January 1554 Fathers Joseph de Anchieta (now Blessed) and de Nobrega established a mission and school at a small village in Brazil. They celebrated the first Mass on the...

Zambia: the church replies

June 21, 2011

Last month in Zambia, a letter from the country’s bishops was read at all Masses. It dealt with two issues. The central focus was the extensive criticism of the Church...

This Sporting Life

June 21, 2011

Crescent College Comprehensive has had such a remarkable run of successes in sport that on May 26th Richard Butler, Cathaoirleach of Limerick County Council, held a reception to mark it....