Social Justice
Irish links with San Salvador
November 24, 2009
At the 20th anniversary Mass in Milltown for the San Salvador martyrs, Michael O’Sullivan SJ recalled some of their links with Ireland. Amando Lopez studied theology and was ordained in...
Read morePeter McVerry in the thick of things
November 17, 2009
The Connaught Tribune reports a moving lecture given in Ballinasloe by Peter McVerry on the scourge of drug abuse in Irish life. He buries, on average, one young person a...
Read moreBruton on religion in Europe
November 17, 2009
Former Taoiseach and former EU ambassador to Washington, John Bruton gave an address on Religion in the European Union, at an event jointly hosted by the Jesuit quarterly review, Studies...
Read moreRemembering the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador
November 17, 2009
Jesuits and colleagues around the world remember the six Jesuit priests murdered in El Salvador, along with their housekeeper and her daughter.
Read moreMALTA: Statement on forced migrants
November 12, 2009
During their General Assembly held in Malta from the 18th to 20th of October, the European Jesuit Provincials reflected on various aspects of the tragic reality of refugees, asylum seekers...
Read moreGo home from Goma
November 10, 2009
It is over a year since Gerry Clarke joined the Jesuit Refugee Service in Goma, DR Congo, which is about as troubled and dangerous a spot as any in Africa....
Read moreJESUITICA: Mungret man at the front
November 10, 2009
Tomorrow, Remembrance Day, we might think of Michael Bergin, born in Roscrea, schooled in Mungret, a remarkable Irish Jesuit chaplain with the Anzac force, which he joined as a trooper...
Read moreIreland hosts JRS Europe AGM
November 3, 2009
The Annual General Meeting of the Jesuit Refugee Service Europe took place in Clongowes College in County Kildare, Ireland, from 29 October – 1November 2009. Over 60 participants from 18...
Read moreIreland builds in Africa
November 3, 2009
Much of Murt Curry’s work in the Mission Office is in the detailed preparation of applications for funding of mission projects by Irish Aid, the Irish people’s principal contribution to...
Read moreSlí Eile had a ball!
November 3, 2009
Over one hundred revellers turned up in fancy dress on Halloween night for the Slí Eile Halloween ball fundraiser.The wind was howling and the rain poured down but that did...
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