Social Justice

Belvedere record-breaking sleepout

January 15, 2015

The Belvedere College SJ sleepout was a record-breaking success this year. The students sleeping on O'Connell St and College Green raised €178,000 for Focus Ireland, The Peter McVerry Trust and...

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Ken Rue

January 15, 2015

Ken Rue was born in Dublin in 1954 and brought up in Crumlin and Terenure. He was educated in Wesley College where he was voted voted best all-round pupil and...

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Séamus Murphy SJ

January 15, 2015

Fr James (Séamus) Murphy SJ joined the Society of Jesus in 1971. He had never met any Jesuits before applying to join, and was instead drawn to the order by...

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Living in fear in Pakistan

January 15, 2015

Brian O'Leary SJ spent three weeks in a Pakistan reeling from the horror of the massacre of school children in Peshawar. He was working with both the Presentation Sisters and...

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Exploring the implications of HIV/AIDS

January 13, 2015

Irish Jesuits · Exploring the implications of HIV/AIDS, Fr Michael Kelly SJ. In spite of massive media attention, there is much about the HIV/AIDS phenomenon which has not been properly...

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The changing face of missionary life. Joe Hayes SJ on his time in Zambia.

January 13, 2015

Irish Jesuits · The changing face of missionary life. Joe Hayes SJ on his time in Zambia. Joe Hayes SJ has spent almost forty years on the missions in Zambia,...

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The Bible and gender violence

January 13, 2015

Irish Jesuits · The Bible and gender violence Michael O’Sullivan SJ’s book ‘How Roman Catholic Theology Can Transform Male Violence against Women’ is a theological analysis of male violence against...

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What does ‘Spiritual Capital’ mean? Dr Michael O’Sullivan SJ discusses.

January 13, 2015

Michael O’Sullivan SJ worked in El Salvador and Pinochet’s Chile. He talks about the moral morass he found himself in, the importance of liberation theology and his friendship with Sr...

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Vatican reporter John Allen on the Vatican’s response to the clerical sexual abuse crisis

January 1, 2014

Irish Jesuits · Vatican reporter John Allen on the Vatican’s response to the clerical sexual abuse crisis Four interviews from the 2011 Conference on ‘Broken Faith’, relating to the clerical...

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Prof Gerard Mannion on the deeper malaise in the Church at the heart of the clerical abuse scandals

January 1, 2014

Irish Jesuits · Prof Gerard Mannion on the deeper malaise in the Church at the heart of the clerical abuse scandals Four interviews from the 2011 Conference on ‘Broken Faith’,...

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