Milltown Institute

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July 22, 2016

The first anniversary of the death of the late Fr. Finbarr Clancy SJ was on 15 July. Fr. Vincent Twomey SVD paid a moving tribute to him.

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‘They will never silence us’

May 20, 2015

Archbishop Romero will be beatified as a modern-day martyr who saw the fight for justice in El Salvador as a political and economic struggle against the forces of sin and...

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The Church and paternalism

February 24, 2015

The Milltown Institute's spring lecture series on the reception of Vatican II over 50 years continued with 'Is the Church unjustifiably paternalistic in speaking of the common good', by Patrick...

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Brian Grogan SJ

January 21, 2015

Brian was born in Dublin, educated by the Christian Brothers, and joined the Jesuits at the ripe old age of sixteen. Why the Jesuits? Because he did not know what...

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Gerry O’Hanlon SJ

January 15, 2015

Gerry O’Hanlon (b 1947) entered the Jesuits in 1965, having been to school in Belvedere College. His studies were mainly at home in Dublin, but included an MA in Classics...

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Séamus Murphy SJ

January 15, 2015

Fr James (Séamus) Murphy SJ joined the Society of Jesus in 1971. He had never met any Jesuits before applying to join, and was instead drawn to the order by...

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Des O’Grady SJ

January 9, 2015

Des was born in Dublin on the 8th September, 1941, and entered the Jesuit noviceship at Emo Park, Co. Laois in 1959. After the noviceship he followed the usual course...

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Pat Coyle

January 15, 2014

Pat Coyle first cooked, then lectured and now communicates for the Jesuits. She cooked for them during the summer of her final year at University College Dublin where she studied...

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