Bill Toner SJ

Reflecting on Jesuit times past

November 20, 2019

After reading through the 'Irish Jesuit Annual Letters' published recently, Bill Toner SJ reflects on the shape of Jesuit life in 17th century Ireland

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John Guiney SJ – a man of ‘unfailing courtesy’

November 20, 2019

Mourners at his funeral Mass heard that John Guiney SJ was a man of shrewd judgement who is remembered with great fondness

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‘Above all I believe in people’

November 20, 2019

Jesuits at home and abroad along with friends and colleagues have been paying tribute to the late Winnie Ryan of Irish Jesuit Missions

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Milltown Park Library moves to DCU

October 3, 2019

The Jesuits have transferred the Milltown Park library to DCU in a partnership agreement. "It will be a living library," says the Irish Jesuit Provincial

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Jesuit treasurers meet in Poland

April 15, 2019

Proper care of elderly Jesuits was the focus of concern for Jesuit treasurers around Europe who met recently in Krakow

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Making space for God

January 4, 2018

BILL TONER : : For those who, in their praying, long for some kind of union with God, it is hard to give up the hope that some day God...

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Bad Language

May 29, 2017

BILL TONER :: Yuval Noah Hararai, denies the existence of everything that is not a brute material object. He says everything else is myth. This is an appalling impoverishment of...

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Can we rediscover God?

April 26, 2017

Bill Toner SJ :: Have things changed so much in recent decades that deep reflection about God is practically impossible?

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Some reflections on Dawkins

January 25, 2017

Bill Toner SJ :: At the heart of purely physicalist accounts of evolution is a failure to address adequately the mystery of human consciousness

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A fond farewell

January 11, 2017

Jesuits, colleagues and members of the Curia staff bid a fond farewell with warm thanks to Tom Layden, Irish Jesuit Provincial for the past six years

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