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Pontificating

March 25, 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...

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Called to heal a wounded Church

March 25, 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...

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Fr Liam McKenna dies at 91

March 8, 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...

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Whose history is it anyway?

March 8, 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...

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A Pope with Irish roots?

March 8, 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...

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Christianity not a European religion

March 8, 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...

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The election of Michelle Bachelet

March 6, 2013

In this interview for 3R Productions with Pat Coyle, Michael O’Sullivan looks back over his days as a Jesuit priest in Pinochet’s Chile and expresses his delight at the recent...

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Re-thinking the papacy

February 21, 2013

"We have become accustomed to speak of the 'Supreme Pontiff', of a 'monarchical-style' papacy, of Roman ‘hands-on’ intervention world-wide.  But it was not always so and need not be so."...

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On the edge of Syria

February 21, 2013

Fr. Gerard Clarke is an Irish Jesuit missioned as a member of a JRS rapid response team based at  International Office in Rome. There are three team members: Francesca, the...

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Another Fr Browne gem

February 21, 2013

Fr Brownes's Kerry is the latest offering of Eddie O'Donnell, the Jesuit who discovered the 40.000 negatives of photos taken by the now famous Irish Jesuit photographer, throughout his life....

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