Social Justice

A terrible beauty

January 25, 2007

January 25, 2007 A terrible beauty How the Irish are in flight from the past by Thomas G Casey SJ Every article written for the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica...

In his regular AMDG column, David Gaffney applauds efforts, both in Ireland and abroad, to take a holistic, communitarian approach to suicide prevention, especially among young people. There were two...

Sickness and health in Ireland

December 20, 2006

The ‘Studies’ winter issue by Fergus O’Donoghue. In Sickness and in Health is the theme of our new issue. Our aim is to examine what, in the first article, John...

Youth cafés, not wine bars

December 19, 2006

In David Gaffney’s view, there is more chance of changing Ireland’s drinking habits through funding youth cafés than through creating a wine bar culture. The Government’s first brainwave for changing...

The age-of-consent dilemma

December 19, 2006

In this transcript of an interview for Religious News Network (RNN), Pat Coyle tells Eileen Good of her reservations about lowering the age of consent in Ireland. The current debate...

Fr John Hayes: a Jesuit at war

November 29, 2006

November 29, 2006 Fr John Hayes: a Jesuit at war New book relates story of WWII Jesuit hero by Patrick McNamara John Hayes, the son of Michael and Agnes Hayes...

The Shaun Doherty Magazine Show – Highland Radio Donegal

November 23, 2006

Following RTÉ’s <em>Final Judgement</em> programme on the issue of women’s ordination, Gerry O’Hanlon SJ was asked about this topic. The discussion on the popular morning programme of one of Ireland’s...

In the Poorer Quarters – RTÉ1

November 12, 2006

RTE’s Aidan Mathews, a former Gonzaga student, referred to his education by the “J’s” in his weekly Sunday programme, ‘<a href=”http://jesuit.ie/blog/serendipity/exit.php?url_id=3&entry_id=7″ onmouseover=”window.status=’http://tinyurl.com/yh7rpr’;return true;” onmouseout=”window.status=”;return true;” title=”In the Poorer Quarters”>In the...