Cesare Sposetti, SJ is a Jesuit based in Milan and is the managing editor of Aggiornamenti Sociali, a monthly review of the Italian Jesuits on social issues and Catholic Social Teaching. He holds Master degrees in Law and Political Science, and is currently involved the political formation of young Italians, in projects such as the… Read more »

Peter McVerry, SJ is a founding member of the Jesuit Centre for faith and justice and a Director of the Peter McVerry Trust, which provides a range of services to respond to homelessness. He has been a homelessness activist for over fifty years, since moving to Dublin’s north inner-city in 1974. Click to download

Dr Elise Lefeuvre Dr Elise Lefeuvre is adjunct lecturer at UCC School of Law. She holds a Master from Sciences Po Lyon, a MSc from LSE, and a PhD from UCC. “The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason (1788) INTRODUCTION Military work is, in essence,… Read more »

Prof. Tobias Winright Tobias Winright is Professor of Moral Theology at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, and he is Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. INTRODUCTION: SITUATING IRELAND After visiting Ireland regularly for over 24 years, my family and I moved to Maynooth from the United States of… Read more »

Every time you go from one neighbourhood and enter another and see an inequality and say ‘that is the way it is’ you are calling that which is demonic, natural.

In 2006, in the North-East Inner-City of Dublin alone, the scale of the change in the religious landscape was staggering and evident to those paying attention.

Written by Céire Kealty Céire Kealty is a PhD candidate in Theology at Villanova University and freelance writer, exploring Christian spirituality, environmental ethics, and the global garment industry. Restless Distractions In his work Confessions, St. Augustine identifies a deep restlessness in every human heart. He insists that this restlessness finds its release in God;[1] advertisers… Read more »

In the 1970s, James Cone shocked the church from its immoral slumber on racism by declaring that God is black. Horne reminds us that Christ is Traveller.

How did a Presbyterian from Ballymena, the Bible Belt of Northern Ireland, end up in a private audience with the Pope? It is quite a journey. It is my journey. I am so thankful for that journey, everywhere God has led me, everything God has taught me, all that I have experienced, got wrong, confessed and, like that clerical collar, made right again. I am most surprised and privileged at reaching this particular destination on my journey.

I have suggested that rehabilitation is a noble pursuit because it is a creative act and requires vision and imagination. But these insightful essays, taken as a whole illustrate that rehabilitation is an act of hope.