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10-05-2013
The Changing Face of Catholic Education in Ireland was the title of a talk given by Educationalist David Tuohy SJ to the Jesuit Identity Group in Galway on Wednesday 17 April. The group is composed of parents and...
10-05-2013
Three Jesuit colleagues recently visited the Eastern Africa Jesuit Province to explore opportunities to grow links between schools and the Magis Young Adult Ministry here and in Africa. They travelled long and far...
10-05-2013
The contractors kept to their timetable: they said the new Coláiste Iognaid would be ready for use on the morning after the May bank holiday; and so it was. The new building (with no name as yet, unlike the...
10-05-2013
Conall O Cuinn SJ has been punctuating his rectorship of the Milltown community with some pioneering explorations of approaches to God, looking for the meeting points between Christians, Muslims and Jews...
26-04-2013
In a wide ranging interview this week for Irish Jesuit Podcasts and local radio, Michael O'Sullivan SJ contextualises the words and deeds of Pope Francis. Having himself worked in El Salvador and Pinochet's Chile...
26-04-2013
The Boston marathon bombing was an atrocity that touched the world. It was, however, felt all the more in Belvedere College Dublin because exchange students from Boston High School were staying with families of...
26-04-2013
Three times a year the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice disturbs our peace of soul with the publication of Working Notes. Issue 71, dated April 2013, has just appeared, and "stirs it up" on several fronts by substantial...
26-04-2013
Bruce Bradley SJ, the relatively new editor of Studies, recalls an editorial decision taken last year when Greece, in a catastrophic financial crisis, was in the eye of the storm. Bruce was tempted to commission an article on the...
12-04-2013
'The Challenge of Now: What Hope for Faith?' was the title of a talk Michael Paul Gallagher gave to an audience of about 200 people of all ages who came to hear him in St Ignatius (the Jes) Church on Monday 25 March...
12-04-2013
"I hope that he will drive forward the aims of the ecumenical movement – not in ever more ecumenical documents which remain on shelves but in decisions that will bring about concrete steps towards unity...
12-04-2013
You would be well advised to go straight to the Podcasts and listen to Pat Coyle’s interview with Brother Guy Consolmagno. Treat this paragraph as a signpost to and advertisement for the real thing. Treat this paragraph...
12-04-2013
'I would argue that the educational system is the most unjust structure in our society today... it has absorbed some of the worst values that are prominent in our society .. the values of consumerism, competitiveness...
25-03-2013
No sooner was he elected, according to Gerry O'Hanlon SJ, than Pope Francis showed his intention to work very much in the spirit of Vatican II. Writing in the Irish Times, Gerry noted that the new pope referred several times...
25-03-2013
James Kelly SJ is an Irish Jesuit and member of the Milltown Community and he knew the new Pope personally. "His ability to lead is unparalleled in my experience. I have never met a man with such leadership skills". Fr Kelly lived in...
25-03-2013
Gonzaga alumnus Aidan Mathews, now an RTÉ producer and a poet, dramatist and novelist, sees the new Pope to be called to be more – not less – ordinary than other folk. To be emphatically ordinary, like Peter, his first...
25-03-2013
An image that sums up both the task awaiting Pope Francis and his manner of tackling that task is an amazing painting, from around 1700, by the German artist Johann Schmidtner. While he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, then-Cardinal Bergoglio came across this painting...
08-03-2013
Fr Liam McKenna died on 2 March in Cherryfield, having moved there from his community in Gardiner Street five days earlier. He was 91, but was alert and engaged to the very end of a full and fruitful life. Liam (as he was known in... 08-03-2013
Can we trust our history? Who gets to tell the story? Whose version becomes the accepted wisdom? Can we do justice to all involved? Just some of the questions explored by a group of young adults from Magis Ireland at a... 08-03-2013
Michael Paul Gallagher SJ was a guest on the Pat Kenny radio show on RTE 1, last Thursday 28 February, along with the BBC's David Willey. Both men were speaking from Rome, but did not always share the same view of recent...
08-03-2013
Jesus was Asian and we need to remember that Christianity is not a European religion it's a world religion. And it’s appropriate that people are able to express their faith in ways they are familiar with. So said Kirsteen Kim, Professor...
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Speak up, parents!
Africa's time to shine
Moving into the new Coláiste
Ways of seeking God
Dare to judge
Belvedere with Boston
Pebble in the oyster
Spring Studies
Faith and pope
Make us smile
The questions are what matter
Dropouts or prophets?
The spirit of the Council
Living with a future Pope
Pontificating
Called to heal a wounded Church
Fr Liam McKenna dies at 91
Whose history is it anyway?
A Pope with Irish roots?
Christianity not a European religion
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