Social Justice

‘The Parish as Oasis’

December 7, 2022

How to beat 'climate despair' personally and in community with practical suggestions for environmental care. Ciara Murphy and Kevin Hargaden explain.

Read more
Syria winter clothes appeal

December 5, 2022

Irish Jesuits International are urging people to help keep a Syrian child warm this Christmas as families face desperate dilemmas.

Read more
Pope Video: For volunteer organisations

December 5, 2022

Pope Francis highlights the value of volunteer non-profit organisations and encourages them to collaborate more among themselves.

Read more
Record high homeless figures

November 28, 2022

Peter McVerry SJ criticises the record high homeless figures that have increased to over 11,000 people during the month of October 2022.

Read more
Provincial launches NCI strategic plan

November 23, 2022

Fr Leonard Moloney SJ launched the five-year strategic plan of the National College of Ireland. Homelessness campaigner Peter McVerry SJ was also awarded an honorary fellowship at the event.

Read more
Change-Climate Project launched

November 23, 2022

JRS calls on Irish schools and students to continue to be ‘agents of change’ in responding to climate change and forced migration.

Read more
Avoidable death of woman in custody

November 14, 2022

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice says the tragic death in the Dóchas Centre should be a watershed moment for female imprisonment.

Read more
Pope Video: For children who suffer

November 4, 2022

Pope Francis asks Christians to pray for children who are suffering, especially those who are homeless, orphans, and victims of war.

Read more
Working Notes: Perspectives on our caring culture

November 1, 2022

The latest issue of Working Notes by JCFJ examines how care is expressed from societal and political perspectives in times of coronavirus.

Read more
Tackling mental health and homelessness

October 17, 2022

The Peter McVerry Trust has just teamed up with the newly launched Reuven Field Foundation charity which is funding Irelands' first rural mobile mental health unit.

Read more