homelessness
Home thoughts from the Bible: Introduction
February 12, 2018
The story the bible tells begins with the making of home. Scholars often note how Genesis 1 and 2 depict God crafting an ordered universe out of chaos as a...
Read more“Declare a housing emergency,” says McVerry
November 29, 2017
Peter McVerry SJ has called on the Taoiseach to declare a housing emergency. He says: "We are beyond crisis"
Read moreGovernment officials are “Dickensian” on homelessness – McVerry
November 17, 2017
The government's attitude to homelessness is "Dickensian", says Peter McVerry; they blame homeless people rather than recognise the failure of their own policies
Read moreThe ‘normalcy’ of homelessness
November 16, 2017
KEVIN HARGADEN :: The recent spate of harsh language around homelessness expresses a dangerous trend in our society. This is something Christians should be furious about.
Read moreScoil Iognáid pupils – ethos in action
December 15, 2016
Pupils in Scoil Iognáid have been making the headlines on foot of their novel fundraising campaign to help the homeless
Read more‘We must regain our outrage’
March 2, 2016
Peter McVerry SJ says we must regain our outrage and make it felt, if we as a society are to have any hope of effectively tackling the issue of homelessness...
Read moreHousing policy a disaster – JCFJ
February 23, 2016
Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice says latest statistics on family homelessness are a shocking indictment of current housing policy.
Read moreMake housing key election issue
February 2, 2016
The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice is calling on all candidates and voters in the forthcoming General Election to make housing and homelessness key issues in the campaign.
Read moreHousing is a ‘sacred right’
June 3, 2015
'Homelessness is worse now than at any time in recent memory' says Peter McVerry SJ in the latest issue of Working Notes, the journal of the Jesuit Centre for Faith...
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