Spirituality
Short Notices
November 17, 2009
This Tuesday afternoon, bookmaker Paddy Power tips the Belgian Prime Minister to be the EU’s first president next week. Herman Van Rompuy’s home page is mostly devoted to quotations and...
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November 17, 2009
17 November: Cathal Goan launches six FÁS publications – Hopkins Room, Leeson Street, 6.00 pm. 18 November: Irish School of Ecumenics sponsors a public lecture by Professor Ron Large on...
Read moreFocus on faith at Interface conference
November 10, 2009
Michael Paul Gallagher SJ gave the keynote address to over one hundred young theolgians from North America, Continental Europe, the UK and Ireland on Friday 6 Nov 2009. He told the...
Read moreCorkery on Ratzinger: “sympathetic but not uncritical”
November 10, 2009
In his new book, Joseph Ratzinger’s Theological Ideas: Wise Cautions and Legitimate Hopes, Jim Corkery SJ argues against any simplistic caricaturing of Ratzinger’s thought, which he claims is highly nuanced...
Read moreCelebration with music
November 10, 2009
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Crescent College Comprehensive in Limerick, its music teacher Roisin Lavery organized a Celebración de Música on October 10th. Choirs and orchestras from Crescent, Belvedere,...
Read moreJESUITICA: Mungret man at the front
November 10, 2009
Tomorrow, Remembrance Day, we might think of Michael Bergin, born in Roscrea, schooled in Mungret, a remarkable Irish Jesuit chaplain with the Anzac force, which he joined as a trooper...
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November 10, 2009
There is a Jesuit link in the significant appointment of Canon Pat Browne as the first Catholic chaplain to Britain’s Houses of Parliament. A late vocation, Pat graduated from the Mungret...
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November 10, 2009
10 November: Jim Corkery’s book launch (see “Corkery on Ratzinger” above) – Milltown Theatre, 5.30 pm 10 November: Liam Lawton in Concert – Gardiner Street Church, 8.00pm 12 November: Lecture by...
Read moreJoint Jesuit-Anglican venture in Rome
November 3, 2009
Irish Jesuit Gerry Whelan SJ took part in a rather unusual initiative in Rome recently when the Anglican Centre there decided to host a week-long course on Ignatian spirituality. The focus was on the ...
Read moreMedal for Micheál
November 3, 2009
Archbishop Michael Neary, on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI, awarded the prestigious Pro Eccelesia et Pontifice Medal to An t-Athair Micheál Mac Gréil at a ceremony in the Episcopal Palace,...
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