Social Justice

Communicating good news

May 1, 2018

Jesuits and lay colleagues collaborating in the work of online and digital communications met in Brussels for the annual Jesuit Webmasters Conference from 23-26 April.

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A Jesuit with the People

April 18, 2018

The American Irish Teachers Association have announced that they will screen 'A Jesuit with the People', a short documentary about Michael O'Sullivan SJ

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Lent 2018: Week after Lent: The Displacement of Home

April 1, 2018

Read 1 Peter 2:4-12 When did secularity become ascendant in Ireland? Was it when pubs were allowed to be opened on Sunday in Northern Ireland, which only happened in 1989?...

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‘Laudato Tree’ project launched in Áras

March 29, 2018

A number of groups, including Jesuit representatives, attended the launch of an imaginative environmental initiative in Ireland that could transform Africa

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Lent 2018: Week 7 – The captive God

March 29, 2018

Read Matthew 27:11-26 Throughout Lent, we have considered the complex meaning of “home” in the Scriptures. Home is both a thing to be treasured – a destination longed for by...

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Lent 2018: Week 6 – The wandering God

March 20, 2018

Read: Luke 15:11-32 The parable we consider this week is perhaps, along with the Good Samaritan, the best-known and most-loved of all Jesus’ divine yarns. There is, of course, no...

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Lent 2018: Week 5 – The refugee God

March 13, 2018

Read: Matthew 2:13-18 How rare it is that in the midst of the crass consumerism and sentimental spirituality that is modern Christmas that we reflect on the first people invited...

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Singing ‘We are the Church’

March 7, 2018

GAVIN T. MURPHY :: An experience at the once Jesuit church in Ballymun triggered the author to follow a path of inclusivity which will not stop at the World Meeting...

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Emergency response to rescue homeless

March 7, 2018

The Peter McVerry Trust sheltered hundreds of homeless people in what was the largest single mobilisation of emergency beds

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Lent 2018: Week 4 – The shock of exile

March 5, 2018

Read Psalm 137 and Jeremiah 30:12-17 While “exodus” is a central motif by which to make sense of the entire Scriptures, “exile” plays a similarly large role. In exodus, the...

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