Spirituality

Short notices

February 10, 2009

The ‘Movies that Matter’ series in Manresa will continue this week (Wednesday 11 February at 7.30pm) with The Road Home, a Chinese film centred on the return of a city...

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60 years after the Milltown Fire

February 10, 2009

At 5.40 a.m. on Friday, 11 February, 1949, a fire was discovered in a pantry of the Milltown Park building where the community lived. The fire brigade was summoned, and...

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Tom Casey SJ lights a candle

February 10, 2009

At this time of crisis in Catholic-Jewish relations, precipitated by the Holocaust-denier Bishop Williamson, there was a tiny glimmer of light last Tuesday, February 3, in Jerusalem. Senior Catholic and...

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Forgiving those who trespass against us

February 10, 2009

“In 2008 Josef Fritzl was arrested in Austria for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years, raping her continuously during that period, fathering seven children by her, and keeping them imprisoned....

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Working with the Reds

February 10, 2009

Conall Ó Cuinn SJ is working on the Galway Cathedral Novena at the moment. The theme of the Novena this year is ‘A Life Worth Living: Finding the Key to Happiness’,...

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JESUITICA

February 10, 2009

In the course of their 450 years, the Jesuits have done or experienced some curious or memorable things. Here AMDG Express is drawing from its stock of memories, and will...

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George Tyrrell revisited

February 3, 2009

Fr George Tyrrell SJ, born in Dublin but a member of the English Province, died in England 100 years ago, expelled from the Society and excommunicated from the Church for...

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Mass in York Minster

February 3, 2009

Brian O’Leary spent two nights on the Other Island, to concelebrate Mass in York Minster, and join in commemorating the 400th anniversary of the foundation by the Yorkshirewoman Mary Ward...

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Short Notices

February 3, 2009

Clongownian Philip Flahavan (Rhetoric), won a Silver Medal in the Irish Science Olympiad Physics section. (This is the second year that Clongowes have been in the medals.) Philip will partake...

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Vatican II: fifty years on

January 27, 2009

To mark the 50th anniversary of the calling of the second Vatican Council, Brendan Staunton SJ will be guest lecturer in The Milltown Institute on Monday Feb 16 2009 at...

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