Vow of poverty: Jesuits to look at its spiritual and practical implications

Many Catholics look at religious orders of men or women and wonder what their vow of poverty means. After all, the brothers, priests and nuns run schools and hospitals, have large convents or abbeys and they all pretty much know where their next meal will come from. “Evangelical poverty” – the vow of poverty – usually will not mean living... Read More

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January 16, 2021

HSBC in dock over climate change policy

The Jesuits in Britain are one of 15 institutional investors with a combined US$2.4 trillion in assets under management that have filed a climate change resolution at HSBC, alongside 117 individual shareholders. The resolution, co-ordinated by responsible investment NGO ShareAction, calls on HSBC to publish a strategy and targets to reduce its exposure to fossil... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

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September 14, 2020

Spanish court convicts ex-Salvadoran colonel of 1989 murders of five Jesuits

A Spanish court has convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for the murders of five Jesuit priests in 1989 – a rare act of justice for an atrocity from El Salvador’s brutal civil war. In a recent ruling, former Col. Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, was found to have planned and ordered the murders of the five... Read More

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May 6, 2020

Christian climate change charity calls on Churches to urgently divest from fossil fuels

Operation Noah is calling on Churches in the UK to urgently divest from fossil fuels in response to the climate emergency. A new report from the Christian climate change charity, titled Church investments in major oil companies: Paris compliant or Paris defiant?, shows the gap between the business plans of major oil companies and the... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

September 4, 2019

South African Jesuits warn against xenophobic rhetoric after attacks

South Africa’s Jesuit Institute condemned the latest flare-up of violence against foreign nationals and urged leaders to stop their xenophobic rhetoric. Police arrested at least 70 people in South Africa’s commercial capital Johannesburg on 2nd September after protesters looted mostly foreign-owned shops and set fire to cars and buildings in the second outbreak of urban... Read More

Catholic Times, News – World

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February 16, 2018

Pope told Jesuits he regularly meets abuse survivors, journal reports

Pope Francis told a group of Jesuits in Peru that he often meets on Fridays with survivors of sex abuse. The meetings, which he said do not always become public knowledge, make it clear that the survivors’ process of recovery “is very hard. They remain annihilated. Annihilated,” the pope had told the Jesuits on 19th... Read More

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December 15, 2017

Pope: Helping refugees means converting hearts hardened against them

With so much suffering, poverty and exploitation in the world, missionary work must also include reaching out to people whose hearts are closed to receiving immigrants and refugees, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Myanmar. “Unfortunately, in Europe there are countries that have chosen to close their borders. The most painful thing is that to take... Read More

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February 3, 2017

South African Jesuits shocked at actions that led to 94 patient deaths

South Africa’s Jesuit Institute said it is appalled at government actions that led to the deaths of 94 mentally ill patients in Gauteng province, and the bishops’ justice and peace commission called for compensation to affected families. Deaths caused by dehydration, septic bed sores and uncontrolled seizures followed the transfer of more than 1,300 patients... Read More

News – World

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