Social Justice

World Day of Migrants

January 13, 2009

‘Floods of refugees’, ‘waves of migrants’, ‘immigration flow’… In an incisive article for World Day of Migrants and Refugees (18 January), Eugene Quinn, director of JRS Ireland, identifies a dehumanising...

Following a star

January 13, 2009

On Tuesday 6 January, the feast of the Epiphany, Michael Hurley made a brief appearance on the RTE 1 programme Witness. He could be seen star-gazing through a telescope in...

JRS brings Christmas cheer to migrant kids

January 6, 2009

Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland ran a very successful Christmas toy appeal, collecting a huge number of toys for distribution to more than 120 children of migrants and asylum seekers. The...

Is Henry really a Jesuit?

January 6, 2009

An article in the Irish News of 5 January recalled the reconciliation work of Henry Grant SJ twenty years ago. One of the Protestants who attended Henry’s workshops was John...

A life of passion: Peter McVerry SJ

January 6, 2009

“There’s an orderly kind of aimlessness in the basement of 26 Sherrard Street…” So begins Kathy Sheridan’s Saturday Interview with Peter McVerry SJ in the Irish Times, 20 December 2008....

President Mary McAleese at USF

December 16, 2008

On 11 December the Jesuit University of San Francisco conferred on President Mary McAleese the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. The citation noted that her presidency has...

JRS leads the way with migrants

December 9, 2008

Both JRS Ireland and Belvedere College received visits on 5 December from representatives of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD is currently conducting a thematic review of...

Examining underbelly of Celtic Tiger

December 2, 2008

At a time when it seems that the grand edifice of Western capitalism is in conflagration, it is apt that the Winter 2008 volume of the Jesuit journal Studies should...

Jesuits in the news

December 2, 2008

Two Irish Jesuits made their voices heard in the Irish media this week. Peter McVerry SJ, in a trenchant Sunday evening interview on RTE Radio One, stressed that while the...

JRS launches 2009 intercultural calendar

December 2, 2008

The JRS Ireland Intercultural and Interfaith Calendar 2009 is available now. The calendar is aimed at raising awareness of diversity in Ireland, and each month it highlights religious feast days...

‘A privilege to be part of it’

April 15, 2026 - The celebratory event to mark the historic Silver Jubilee of postgraduate studies in Applied Spirituality was a special day for all involved.

An attitude of gratitude

April 14, 2026 - Gratitude: The solution to worry, Kierkegaard claimed, was to make a leap of faith and put our trust in God’s enduring love.

April Messenger: Hope, renewal and growth

April 13, 2026 - In these uncertain times, the April Messenger offers rest and reflection, with themes of hope, renewal, gratitude and transformation in everyday life.

Faithful Justice Today: A Jesuit Commemoration

April 1, 2026 - The spring 2026 issue of Studies commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Jesuits formally committing the Society to 'a faith that does justice'.