Kevin Hargaden

Vaccines and the common good

May 11, 2021

KEVIN HARGADEN :: Suspending patent rights to enable access to vaccines worldwide merits support – much better than leaving things in the hands of market-driven philanthropists

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Pandemic populism

January 21, 2021

KEVIN HARGADEN :: The Irish government's recent failures to put the common good before private interest in managing the pandemic display a brand of populist thinking.

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British-Irish pooling of talents

November 23, 2020

The Joint Ecology groups from the Irish and British Provinces held their first meeting recently and agreed to work on a number of issues together

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Deep ecological conversion needed in these crisis times

November 11, 2020

October's Working Notes sounds the alarm about accelerating ecological breakdown and other threats to healthy human existence brought into focus by the pandemic

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Just war is just gone

October 19, 2020

KEVIN HARGADEN :: 'Fratelli tutti' takes a firm stance on "Christological non-violence" and casts doubt on the theological viability of just-war theory.

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Concerns about Dóchas centre

September 25, 2020

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice have expressed alarm at reports of the environment for female prisoners in the Dóchas centre, Mountjoy

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‘Not optimistic but hopeful’

August 28, 2020

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice is marking forty years of service. Director Dr Kevin Hargaden outlines his vision for the challenging times ahead

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“Now is not the time for peace”

July 7, 2020

JaNaé Bates is a minister working in Minneapolis for racial and economic justice for everyone in the United States

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A catastrophe and a window on the world

March 13, 2020

Covid-19 is a crisis that must serve as a window through which we look to create a society that works for everyone not just the rich, says Kevin Hargaden, JCFJ

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The weakened immunity of an individualistic society

March 13, 2020

KEVIN HARGADEN :: The coronavirus shows the catastrophic nature of society growing in interconnectivity without corresponding growth in solidarity

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