Spirituality

Western Pioneers gather and plan

October 20, 2009

On Saturday 10 October last the Connaught membership of the PTAA met in the Park Hotel, Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo for a day-long session of discussion and debate. It brought the...

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Short notices

October 20, 2009

On 13th October the Coláiste Iognáid Debating Society, joined by students from Scoil Ursa, debated whether Religion should be taken out of the school curriculum. The motion that Religion should be...

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JESUITICA: Jesuits to the frontiers

October 13, 2009

Ray Howgego’s “Book of Exploration”, warmly reviewed this week, is the story of over 7000 travellers who have contributed to our knowledge of this earth. It reveals how often Catholic...

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Short Notices

October 13, 2009

Gerry Foley, principal of Belvedere, welcomed the meeting of Pastoral Coordinators from Jesuit schools who met in Belvedere House on Thursday and Friday 8-9 October 2009. The meeting was convened...

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Forthcoming Events

October 13, 2009

Slavek Kwi, a composer and sound artist, will set up an installation of the compositions he worked on with the children of St Declan’s School, in the John Field Room,...

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Meetings matter!

October 6, 2009

“Eighty-five million meetings occur every day” according to Meetings Matter! by Brian Grogan SJ and Phyllis Brady: Veritas: 2009. Here is a practical, easy-to-use handbook on how to make the...

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Pioneers vowing and ploughing

October 6, 2009

The Pioneers’ Heroic Offering, first made 120 years ago by Fr James Cullen in St Peter’s Cathedral, Belfast,  drew hundreds of Pioneers to a jubilee Mass on the same spot....

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Hopkins where he died

October 6, 2009

There is still time to see a unique dramatisation of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Newman House. Go there at 7 p.m. on 6th or 7th October, and relish (rather than...

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JESUITICA: Superlative academic

October 6, 2009

When you read that Miquel Batllori i Munné SJ was awarded eleven honorary doctorates in one day, you could be tempted to think that he was an establishment figure who...

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Short notices

October 6, 2009

Change at JCFJ: The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has a new Acting Director, Eoin Carroll. Gerry O’Hanlon SJ will still be working in the Centre, focusing on his...

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