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On being both victim and offender
August 28, 2012
In today’s Irish Times Fr Peter McVerry SJ addresses what he sees as a misunderstanding of the causes of crime, and how to respond to offending behaviour. While most of...
Read moreRemembering for good
August 9, 2012
Belfast and Derry/Londonderry saw the launch of a new project focused on the coming decade 2012-2022. The 100th anniversary of events that greatly shaped Ireland and still cast a long...
Read moreBolton Trust at 25
August 9, 2012
Dermot McKenna, just turning 84, is celebrating the silver jubilee of the Bolton Trust. He traces his interest in cooperatives to Maggie Thatcher. In 1987 Dermot was a chaplain in...
Read moreEuro crisis is an ethical one
August 9, 2012
The July issue of Working Notes, published by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, recruits five writers from the social sciences to examine the European economic crisis: Kevin O‘Rourke,...
Read moreJesuits telling it like it is
August 9, 2012
During a short stint with the Jesuit Communication Centre this summer, Irish Jesuit scholastic Niall Leahy produced a series of interviews with Irish Jesuits on faith, vocation, and various aspects...
Read moreFr Browne exhibition at Emo launched
July 24, 2012
A new Father Frank Browne Photograph Exhibition was officially opened on July 23 at Emo Court, Co. Laois, by Brian Hayes TD, Minister with Responsiblity for the Office of Public...
Read moreEducation minister sets out vision in Studies
July 24, 2012
The need for radical reform of the Irish education system is urged by Ruairi Quinn, Minister for Education and Skills, in the latest issue of Studies. In his leading article...
Read moreJesuit awarded prestigious French honour
July 13, 2012
Conor Harper SJ has been awarded one of the most prestigious honours that the French government can bestow. He has been appointed as a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts...
Read moreJesuits discuss state of the Society
July 9, 2012
Jesuit delegates at the Congregation of Procurators in Nairobi this week will vote on Friday 13 on whether or not to have a General Congregation. After an opening prayer and...
Read moreThe mind of Benedict
July 6, 2012
Michael Paul Gallagher SJ, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, was back in Ireland recently to deliver a lecture on the theology of Pope...
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