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Pioneer pilgrimage to Knock

Knock, Co. MayoThe Pioneer Association’s pilgrimage to Knock takes place on Sunday 20 July. Bishop Colm O’Reilly of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise will be the chief celebrant. Barney McGuckian SJ, spiritual director of the Pioneers, will also be there. This annual event is also an occasion for Pioneers to remember Matt Talbot especially and to pray for his canonisation. For more details about this pilgrimage, contact Noreen Brady through the Pioneer office: phone 01 8749464 or email enquiries@pioneertotal.ie.

Added Friday 11 July 2008 :: Category: General ::

New Working Notes out

Working NotesA new issue of Working Notes, a regular publication of the Jesuit Centre of Faith and Justice, is now out. The title of the issue is ‘Time for Justice’, and it opens with an edited version of the address which Baroness Jean Corston delivered at the JCFJ’s seminar on women in prison last May. In other articles Brian Grogan SJ and Gerry O’Hanlon SJ both write about crime and prisons from a faith-based perspective, and Peter McVerry SJ looks at housing policy and sustainable communities. A PDF of the issue can be downloaded from the JCFJ website.

Added Friday 11 July 2008 :: Category: General ::

Mitres and croziers

Fr Luis Ladaria SJFor the first time since St Robert Bellarmine a Jesuit has been coopted as secretary of a Roman Congregation. The Pope has named Father Luis Ladaria, a 64-year-old Spaniard, as secretary of the Congregation of the Faith. Though it is not normal for Jesuits to be ordained bishops, Luis becomes, as is customary in such posts, a titular archbishop. He joins an important body headed by the Californian who took over the job from Joseph Ratzinger. Although we feel the grievous loss to the Gregorian University, where Luis lectured on the Trinity and was seen as the outstanding theologian on the staff, the appointment is a sign of Pope Benedict’s confidence in him. Fr General, in communicating this news, nudged all Provinces to maintain their generous sharing of good theologians with the Gregorian University. Read more »

Added Friday 11 July 2008 :: Category: General, International ::

Friends of Hopkins gather in Kildare

Gerard Manley Hopkins“I am in Ireland now,” Gerard Manley Hopkins laments in one of his ‘terrible sonnets’, reflecting on his baneful “life among strangers”. And yet, the many times he left Dublin to enjoy “the delicious bog air of Monasterevin”, Co. Kildare, the Jesuit poet was happy to acknowledge that he found himself among friends. How apt then that Monasterevin has hosted a Hopkins literary festival every summer since 1987. This year’s festival runs from 19 to 25 July. There will be lectures, readings, concerts, and receptions. Fergus O’Donoghue SJ will say the opening Mass; Joseph Feeney SJ will give a lecture; and Peter Milward SJ’s book, A Lifetime with Hopkins, will be launched.

Added Friday 11 July 2008 :: Category: General ::