20111206

Challenging student culture

December 7, 2011

SHAG week in Trinity, just ended, illustrates well the culture in which the chaplains, among them Peter Sexton SJ, spread the Good News. SHAG stands for Sexual Health Awareness and...

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Forthcoming events

December 7, 2011

Monday 12 December: Lecture by Robert Kennedy SJ author of ‘Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit and Zen Gifts to Christians’, Gonzaga College at 7.30pm. Contact [email protected] for further information. Monday 12...

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Short notices

December 7, 2011

The latest talk in the Clongowes Leadership Series was given in Dublin’s RDS by David Dilger, who left Clongowes in 1973 and served as CEO for Greencore group PLC for...

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Jesuit troika

December 7, 2011

Readers will have noticed one sign of hope on the European scene, a blessed unity of purpose among three of Europe’s leaders: Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council;...

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Magis retreat – ‘a very special week’

December 7, 2011

‘A very special week’ was how eight young retreatants described the Retreat in Daily Life at Magis Ireland, Gardiner St. on Sunday 27 November. They were introduced to different ways...

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Clongownian annual arrives

December 7, 2011

The Clongownian Annual 2011 has just been published – in full colour. Edited by Declan O’Keefe, the current issue features an in-depth interview with Provincial (and Old Clongownian) Tom Layden...

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Jesuit books for Christmas

December 7, 2011

A guide to the Gospel of Mark by Phil Fogarty SJ and just published by Columba Press, is the last in his very successful and  accessible ‘Navigating the Gospels’ series...

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Jesuit Missions Christmas Cards

December 7, 2011

The Jesuit Mission Office is selling four Christmas cards this year, all of them designed by pupils in Upendo Primary School in Kangemi, a slum settlement of at least 100,000...

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Ethics in journalism

December 6, 2011

Since Fr John K. Guiney took over as president of the Irish Missionary Union, one issue has made huge demands on his energies: the defamation of Fr Kevin Reynolds (pictured...

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Confucius in Gt Denmark Street

December 6, 2011

Back in the 1970s it used be said that the optimists were learning Russian (taught in Belvedere by Fr Schrenk), and the pessimists Chinese. The opposite is true today. After...

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