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Forthcoming events

September 28, 2011

Wednesdays 28 September and 12 October: Movies that matter, Autumn Series – ‘The Journey into Love and Relationship’. An introduction to reflection through the medium of film at 7pm –...

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Songs of Stephen

September 28, 2011

In the good old days when Stephen Redmond SJ was teaching English and History in the young Gonzaga, he was also writing music. In 1968 his Irish song Gleann na...

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Students work, fund and serve

September 28, 2011

Fifty Leaving Cert students from Jesuit schools and Holy Rosary College Crumlin, raised  €25,000 euro for projects in Jamaica and Africa, which they themselves had taken part in (see picture)....

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The final hurdle

September 28, 2011

When a Jesuit has finished his studies and worked in some ministry for a couple of years, there is one final hurdle, called Tertianship, to be crossed before his “formation”...

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Studies: a trenchant swan-song

September 28, 2011

Outgoing Studies editor Fergus O’Donoghue’s swansong editorial, in the wake of the Cloyne Report, is a quotable dose of political incorrectness: “An arrogant bishop proved his pastoral ineptitude by his...

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JESUITICA: Hell on the Moon

September 28, 2011

You may be puzzled by the title of a crater on a map of the moon: Hell. This cold, barren feature is not named after the opposite of Heaven, but...

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Faith renewed in Magis circles

September 28, 2011

‘Entirely transforming. I loved the Magis circles and saw my own day-to-day life and faith situations in a whole new way.” Just one of the  reflections from the  young people...

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“Quite definitely?”

September 28, 2011

“Did you say the quite definite message quite definitely?” That was the puzzling question put to the one thousand Belvedere students who filed into Gardiner St Church on Wed 21st...

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For God and Dublin!

September 28, 2011

Belvedere College can boast another sporting hero after Dublin’s magnificent win in the All Ireland football final in Croke Park on Sunday 18 September. Number 6 on the team, Ger...

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Legalise drugs? – An urgent question

September 28, 2011

In the September issue of Working Notes, Peter McVerry SJ puts three questions, and suggests answers. 1. Do you believe that Ireland will ever again become free of illegal drugs?...

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