Social Justice

Lent 2018: Week 3 – The hope of home

February 28, 2018

Read Joshua 3:7-17 Abram was called out of Ur and on that pilgrimage he received a new name (Abraham) and a lineage. But the children of Isaac and Jacob found...

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Religious Imagination and Public Life

February 27, 2018

Edmond Grace SJ argued in a recent lecture that the exclusion of religious discourse from public life gives free rein to fundamentalism and crass populism.

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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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Lent, the bible and the housing crisis

February 12, 2018

Kevin Hargaden, social justice theologian with the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has written a lenten retreat with a difference, in order to make a difference

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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...

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Getting under the skin of racism in Ireland

February 12, 2018

KEVIN HARGADEN :: We Irish have no right to imagine that racism is a problem just for other countries, particularly given the way we treat the Travelling Community

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Would you help a refugee?

February 7, 2018

Students of Crescent College SJ won first prize at the BT Young Scientist awards for their study into bias for or against refugees and migrants in moral decision making

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Pope highlights consequences of corruption

February 5, 2018

In the February edition of 'The Pope Video' Pope Francis speaks about the consequences of corruption and calls for the condemnation of this evil

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The Church and #metoo

February 2, 2018

KEVIN HARGADEN :: In the last year a remarkable shift has begun in attitudes around sexual abuse that, while very difficult, demand the attention of Christians

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The Jesuit mission in Myanmar

February 1, 2018

Mark Raper SJ says it's a blessing to be a Jesuit on mission in Myanmar at this critical time of both hope and persecution

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