Spirituality
Jesuitica: Changing times
June 16, 2009
When Pope Gregory XIII needed advice on how to revise the Julian calendar in 1582, he turned to a Jesuit mathematician at the Roman College, Christopher Clavius, who said: “Suppress...
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A Jubilee Mural
June 9, 2009
As part of the celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the children of St. Declan’s school, under the guidance of artist Niamh Sinnott, have been engaged in creating a ceramic wall mural...
Read moreConall stirs Farm Street
June 9, 2009
On Trinity Sunday Irish Jesuit Conall Ó Cuinn presided and preached at London’s Farm Street on the subject of Call. Through retelling of scenes from Kevin Costner’s film The Postman,...
Read moreEnglish to replace Latin?
June 9, 2009
Irish Jesuit Tom Casey, writing in the current issue of America, makes the case for replacing Latin with English as the official language of the church. Since it went online last...
Read moreForthcoming Events
June 9, 2009
10 June, 11 a.m. in Mont Clare Hotel, Merrion Square: Kathy Sheridan will launch a JCFJ policy paper on “The Irish Housing System: Vision, Values, Reality”. 11-19 June: Gardiner St...
Read moreShort Notices
June 8, 2009
While in Prague, Provincial John Dardis met Josef Horehled SJ, who, with the backing of Irish Province funds, is doing marvellous work in the Nativity school in Decin, north Bohemia. Josef is...
Read moreShower of red roses
June 2, 2009
Writing from Rome, Tom Casey SJ describes a fascinating and moving annual tradition which marks the end of the Pentecost Mass in Saint Mary of the Martyrs, more famously known...
Read moreJESUITICA: Jumping Jesuits
June 2, 2009
Travellers in the Beara Peninsula will remember the Priest’s Leap, a mountain cliff in the townland of Cummeenshrule, where (around 1600 AD) a priest on horseback escaped from pursuing soldiers...
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June 2, 2009
Sixth year Jes student, Eoin Griffin, presents his Irish Rugby jersey to school principal, Bernie O’Connell, accompanied by senior rugby coach, Paul Kilraine, on Tuesday 26th May 2009. Eoin was...
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June 2, 2009
The Annual Belvedere Block-Pull will take place from Thursday 11 June to Sunday 21 June. Over this period, students will spend three days in the Dublin area, then walk to...
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A Jesuit priest at Drumcree church
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WWII – ‘A humanitarian disaster on a global scale’
October 1, 2026 - Bryan Dobson launched 'The Second World War through Jesuit Archives: The Case of Europe (1939-1945)', a book co-edited by Damien Burke, Irish Jesuit Archivist.
Clongowes students shares about his faith
October 1, 2026 - Twelve-year-old Clongowes student Anthony Buday won the National Knock Basilica Art Competition with his model of the basilica made of sugar cubes. He has a singular devotion to Mary.
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