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...
Read moreSeventy 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...
Read moreShort 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreBusy 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...
Read moreSlí 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...
Read moreDeath 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...
Read moreProvincial’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...
Read moreZimbabwean 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...
Read moreIgnatian 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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