Social Justice
Housing Minister visits JCFJ
February 5, 2008
On Wednesday 30 January Mr Batt O’Keeffe TD, Minister of State with responsibility for Housing at the Department of the Environment, visited the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. Accompanied...
Read moreÍosánaigh ar An tuath nua
January 24, 2008
Ar TG4 ag 7:30 i.n. caitheann Pádraic Ó Neachtain an lá in éineacht le sagart Íosánach agus é i mbun oibre.
Read moreWorrying time in Kenya
January 15, 2008
Violence in Kenya in recent weeks has already taken more than 600 lives, and it is feared that the situation may worsen in coming days. John Guiney SJ, who spent...
Read moreCan the body be sold?
January 15, 2008
Can the body be sold? Prostitution, trafficking and llegal adoption of children and other abuses to our bodies are the subject of Slí Eile’s January debate that is to be...
Read moreBridging troubled waters
January 8, 2008
A long-time peace worker who began work in Northern Ireland with Belfast’s Jesuit-led Columbanus Community has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s honours list. Revd Paul Symonds was...
Read moreA flick through next year’s pages
December 29, 2007
In the last Saturday supplement of 2007, The Irish Times‘ Arminta Wallace previews the literary year 2008 with a mention of a Jesuit writer, Nigerian Uwem Akpan. Conflicts in Africa...
Read moreTeaching English to refugees
December 20, 2007
2007 Fourteen Clongowes Transition Year students and two teachers plan to use Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) to assist local asylum seekers and refugees. They are a pilot...
Read moreSentence adjourned
December 18, 2007
Irish newspapers today carried reports of an Englishman, a former clerical employee of the Jesuits, who was charged with setting fire to the Irish headquarters on Good Friday last. He...
Read moreSinging in the rain
December 17, 2007
Jesuit Volunteers Philippines have agreed to accept two Irish applicants, at the request of JVI Ireland, to join their 29th batch of volunteers. Each year about 20 volunteers take part...
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