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JRS criticises EU response to ‘conflict minerals’

November 29, 2016

The Jesuit Refugee Service has criticised a proposed new EU law on so-called 'conflict minerals' as “half-hearted”, with too many concessions and loopholes

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New Justice Education Co-ordinator

November 23, 2016

Krizan Vekic has taken up the position of Justice Education Co-odinator for the Irish Jesuit Education Desk

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Kevin Barry revisited

November 17, 2016

Former IRA bomber Shane Paul O'Doherty found echoes of Kevin Barry's life in his own, and wrote a play about the 'Belvedere Boy'

Inspirational Jesuits

Ignacio Ellacuría

November 9, 2016

Ignacio Ellacuría SJ is widely regarded as a brilliant contributor to the development in Catholic theology of the notion of the 'preferential option for the poor'.

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Trump – from dismay to discernment

November 9, 2016

Theologian Gerry O'Hanlon SJ was at first dismayed at the election of Donald Trump. His second response was to discern what it might really mean.

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Community alternatives, not imprisonment

November 9, 2016

A newly published report from the CSO on prison and probation recidivism shows necessity for systemic change to reduce re-offending, says Jesuit Centre

Inspirational Jesuits

Blessed Rupert Mayer SJ

October 26, 2016

Known as the ‘Apostle of Munich’, Blessed Rupert Mayer SJ, survived two world wars – the first as chaplain-in-service of those who fought and died, and the second as a...

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Find solutions to Brexit problems – Alastair Campbell

October 26, 2016

Tony Blair's former Director of Communications, Alastair Campbell, told a group of Old Clongownians that he feared for the United Kingdom in a post-Brexit world