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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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...
Read moreJESUITICA: 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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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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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,...
Read moreMeetings 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...
Read morePioneers 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....
Read moreHopkins 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...
Read moreJESUITICA: 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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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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