Social Justice

Jesuit Centre: Ireland’s climate targets too lenient

August 3, 2016

Catherine Devitt, JCFJ Environmental Officer, says the Government's negotiations for lax climate targets amounts to a missed opportunity for real environmental progress.

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Cut the carbon emissions

July 19, 2016

Mary Robinson’s visit to Ethiopia reminds us that we cannot ignore the need for urgent action on climate change here at home, says Catherine Devitt of the JCFJ

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Reducing emissions is our moral responsibility

July 13, 2016

Catherine Devitt :: Mary Robinson’s visit to Ethiopia reminds us that we cannot ignore the need for urgent action on climate change here at home.

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Jesuit schools – ‘agents of change’

July 6, 2016

St Declan's Primary School recently joined The Irish Jesuit Mission Office’s Development Education programme, and teacher Jacqueline Barry Duke learnt some valuable lessons in Uganda.

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Kevin O'Higgins SJ hopes the Brexit decision can be reversed but that requires 'the pompous, bloated, bureaucratic, undemocratic and unaccountable EU' to rediscover its soul and its founding principles.

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The Irish Prison Service’s unmet commitments

June 27, 2016

Chronic overcrowding still persists in our prisons and reform commitments have not been implemented, according to the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice

Jesuit devastated by Brexit

audio June 24, 2016

Pat Riordan SJ says he's shattered by the Brexit referendum result which could split up not just the EU but the UK as well.

The Church and the challenge of freedom

June 23, 2016

The Church can learn from secular society as well as share its own wisdom with it, according to Cardinal Reinhard Marx.

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Laudato Si: How does the encyclical speak to an Irish context?

June 22, 2016

Catherine Devitt :: While Laudato Si’ generated much momentum in the last year; we urgently need to forge ahead to translate its vision into reality, particularly at a political and...