Spirituality

Expanding my Catholic circle

April 12, 2016

GAVIN T. MURPHY :: I actively engaged with a number of Catholic groups over the last few months. I share my experience which encompasses a shared familiarity of the divine.

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Pope Francis on the family – a view from Rome

audio April 8, 2016

According to Dr Gerry Whelan SJ, the Pope's document on the family, Amoris Laetitia ('The Joy of Love'), is hugely significant – more than a superficial reading would let one...

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Jesuits and the 1916 Rising

April 8, 2016

Damien Burke of Irish Jesuit archives has been researching the material in the archives concerning the role of the Jesuits in 1916 and their reaction to the Rising.

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New app to pray with Pope Francis launched

March 29, 2016

Click To Pray app is available in both Android and iOS formats, so that people virtually everywhere can unite their prayers with those of Pope Francis easily and quickly everyday.

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Review of Spotlight

March 24, 2016

Best Oscar this year went to 'Spotlight', the story of the Boston Globe's investigation into child sex-abuse in the Church in Boston. Brendan Staunton SJ reviews it here.

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Spreading Good News at Gardiner Street

March 23, 2016

Large numbers attended Gardiner Street Church both for this year's 'Novena of Grace and Mercy' and the "24 Hours for the Lord" Year of Mercy event.

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Be merciful, just as your father is merciful

March 23, 2016

GERRY CLARKE SJ :: Pope Francis has put it very simply: “The Church is not in the world to condemn, but to make possible an encounter with the visceral love...

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Dalkey parishioners partner with Moyross

March 23, 2016

Paddy Cullen spoke to a congregation in Dalkey, Dublin, about the hugely important work being done in Moyross, Limerick, where Tony O'Riordan SJ is parish priest.

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Joseph Mallin SJ receives freedom of the city

March 20, 2016

Fr Joseph Mallin SJ (102), last surviving child of an executed leader of the 1916 Rising, has received the freedom of the city of Dublin at a ceremony in Hong...

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MP Gallagher’s reflections during last illness launched

audio March 16, 2016

Professor Eamon Conway launched the last book of Michael Paul Gallagher SJ, a series of reflections during the last stages of his cancer, in Belvedere House on 15 March.

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