Social Justice

REVIEW: The Avengers: Age of Ultron

May 6, 2015

FILM REVIEW FROM AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC OFFICE FOR FILM AND BROADCASTING :: This recent release is an entertaining, worthy successor to the Marvel Avenger movies that have preceded it

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Exploring Jesuit life

May 6, 2015

The Four Provinces Novitiate based in Birmingham held a weekend for prospective novices in March 2015. There were five young men from different backgrounds and cultures all interested in exploring...

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Frontiers of fear

May 1, 2015

Jesuit Missions Office director, John K Guiney SJ, recalls a recent meeting of Social Delegates in Nador, Morocco, which reflected on Jesuit work with migrants in the fraught borderlands between...

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Following your nose

April 17, 2015

PAULA NOLAN :: In the past the world was full of 'people smells', but many of them were replaced by the scents of the cosmetic/pharmaceutical industry. All the old smells...

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“My brother” – his killer

April 15, 2015

"My brother": the last two words of Fr Frans van der Lugt SJ, spoken to his killer who shot him twice at point-blank range. Irish Jesuit Missions Office have made...

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Ministering in an LGBT-friendly way

April 14, 2015

Irish-born Jesuit Fr Donal Godfrey features in an article in the National Catholic Reporter, describing the Most Holy Redeemer parish in San Francisco, which has a long history of ministering...

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Why aren’t we afraid of nuclear war?

April 2, 2015

TOM CASEY SJ :: As foreign ministers from major world powers hammer out a deal with Iran at a nuclear negotiating table in Lausanne, the troubling question of the annihilation...

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Pat Davis SJ reflects about his life and work as a Jesuit in Belfast

March 24, 2015

Irish Jesuits · Pat Davis SJ reflects about his life and work as a Jesuit in Belfast Pat Davis SJ reflects with Pat Coyle about his vocation and life in...

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‘Dying for a Drink’

March 11, 2015

"Legislation is more effective that education in tackling alcohol abuse," Professor Frank Murray told members of the Pioneer Association in his talk entitled 'Dying for a Drink', delivered at their...

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The trouble with ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

February 25, 2015

RICHARD LEONARD SJ :: Richard Leonard thinks that '50 Shades of Grey' is somewhat tragic. In interview with Pat Kenny on Newstalk he asks if this is the way we...

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