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If Peter were Taoiseach…
January 24, 2020
Prime Time Extra on RTE television invited Peter McVerry to tell the nation what he would do in his first 100 days if he were elected Taoiseach of the country
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JCFJ critiques disastrous government response to homelessness
July 20, 2019
Fr Peter McVerry SJ and the JCFJ have expressed their deep criticism of the government's homelessness action plan, Rebuilding Ireland, on its third anniversary
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Responding to false claims about homelessness
January 11, 2019
Kevin Hargaden of JCFJ responds to misleading statements of former Housing Agency chair, Conor Skehan
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Helping the homeless: Belvedere Sleep-Out 2018
December 18, 2018
Belvedere students talk to Pat Coyle as they prepare to sleep out on the streets of Dublin from 22 to 24 December
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A gift for the homeless
August 21, 2018
The Irish Jesuit Province have announced that three properties in the Gardiner Street Parish of Dublin’s north inner city will be converted to 16 apartments for the homeless
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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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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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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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Lent 2018: Week 2 – The risk of leaving our father’s home
February 19, 2018
Read Genesis 12 The reader cannot fail to note the decisive break between the end of Genesis chapter 11, where we come to the end of the story about Babel...
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