20110914

A double from Tom Casey

September 14, 2011

Critics have given a warm reception to two recent publications by Tom Casey SJ, who teaches in Rome’s Gregorian University.  He co-edited, with Justin Taylor, Paul’s Jewish Matrix (Rome: G...

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Forthcoming events

September 14, 2011

Wednesday 14 September: ‘Movies that Matters’: ‘The Journey into Love and Relationship’. Starts up again and continues fortnightly in Manresa, Jesuit Centre of Spirituality, 426 Clontarf Road, Dollymount, Dublin 3...

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Bolivian baroque

September 14, 2011

The Jesuit love of music left its mark in the Paraguay Reductions, that extraordinary network of towns in South America, originally constructed as a safe haven for Indians from the...

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Imaginations kindled

September 13, 2011

“We stand in the stream of love that is God’s life…. It makes a lot of difference whether you think this kind of love is a possibility for us humans”....

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Valuing Vatican II

September 13, 2011

The renowned Vatican historian John O’Malley SJ addressed a large audience in Belvedere College, on Friday 9 Sept. In his lecture,  ‘Interpreting Vatican II: The Controversy and Its Solution’, he...

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Richard and the new nation

September 13, 2011

Richard O’Dwyer is not starry-eyed about the new nation of South Sudan – see his piece below – but he loves it. The former quantity surveyor seems able to turn...

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“Homeless in crisis” – McVerry

September 13, 2011

“Emergency homeless services in Dublin are in crisis. There are now more people forced to sleep on the streets than at any time in the past 10 years. Dublin City...

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Hayes in the Copper Belt

September 13, 2011

Before they start theology and the preparation for priesthood, most Jesuit students spend two or three years in what they call regency, a sort of apprenticeship for ministry. Those who...

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Near Death

September 13, 2011

Boosted by, among other things, the prayers of our readers, Michael J. Kelly SJ, world-renowned expert on HIV/Aids, has come back from life-threatening surgery. And he has reported, in his...

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Sore muscles, happy heart

September 13, 2011

Brendan McManus SJ completed the 800 km Camino de Santiago on foot this summer in honour of his brother Donal (RIP), and raised almost €5000 for the suicide awareness group,...

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