Spirituality

“Is religion dangerous?” – public lecture

September 23, 2008

The question to which the third public lecture of Studies Quarterly Review and The Iona Institute will be addressed is ‘Is religion dangerous?’ This is the title of one of...

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Seventy years a Jesuit

September 23, 2008

Fr Kevin Laheen SJ celebrated seventy years as a Jesuit on Sept 16, with his family, friends and Jesuit community in Leeson St, Dublin 2.  Born on Feb 18, 1919...

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Short notices

September 16, 2008

President Mary McAleese, who will be conferred with a HDCL (Canon Law) in Milltown next month, has invited her former lecturer, Michael O’Sullivan (pictured right), to join the Forum she...

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The death of Fr Paddy Doyle SJ

September 16, 2008

Former Irish Jesuit Provincial Fr Paddy Doyle SJ died in Cherryfield in the early hours of Sunday morning. His body was in respose at Cherryfield on Tuesday Sept 16 at...

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Busy partners

September 16, 2008

Joe Greenan and Deirdre Soffe, the Irish Jesuits’ Partners in Mission, have organised two workshops in the last month. They commissioned a website called jesuitlink, which uses the Moodle system...

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Slí Eile runs social spirituality course

September 16, 2008

Sli Eile, the Jesuit ministry to young adults, is now enrolling applicants for its certificate course in social spirituality. The course entails weekly lectures from 30 September to June and...

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Death of Fr Paddy Doyle RIP

September 14, 2008

Former Provincial Fr Paddy Doyle SJ died peacefully in Cherryfield in the early hours of Sunday morning. His body will be in respose at Cherryfield on Tuesday Sept 16 at...

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Provincial’s tribute to Fr Michael Melvin RIP

September 14, 2008

Many tributes have been paid to the late Fr Michael Melvin SVD, director of kairos Communications in Maynooth. He died unexpectedly on Tuesday 9 September, aged 61. Jesuit Provincial John...

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Zimbabwean Jesuit completes internship with JRS Ireland

September 9, 2008

Ignatius Makumborenga SJ, a Zimbabwean scholastic, completed an internship with JRS Ireland in August. He is currently studying theology at Centres Sevres in Paris. He has a long-standing interest in...

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Ignatian Lutherans

September 9, 2008

Fr Brian O’Leary SJ has just returned from directing (together with two sister directors) a group of Lutheran pastors in an Ignatian retreat in Gothenburg, Sweden. The initiative came from...

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