We are excited to welcome @nlsj.bsky.social as JCFJ's new director. His experience in the Church, Community & knowledge of social justice issues will be an excellent guide in the coming years! More here: www.jcfj.ie/2025/09/04/j

"The darkness first takes our children who then kill our children, using the guns that are easier to obtain than aspirin. We sacralize death's instruments and then are surprised that death uses them." - Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, TX

Hope and humility in a time of environmental crisis — the theme of my homily yesterday at Knock on Day 7 of the National Novena to Our Lady of Knock. VERY ENCOURAGED by how warmly the message was received. #Laudatosi youtu.be/wzvaRo0nqzE?...

Just another example of the many things continuing to feed our housing crisis

JCFJ’s new housing policy advocate @alexiacobrien.bsky.social is not only educating me about #housing policy but also about new Irish pop music.

www.jcfj.ie/2025/08/07/p... @nlsj.bsky.social helps us explore what localism looks like in his 3rd in the three part blog series on localism different parts of society, encouraging us to challenge what we see as normal:

Let us introduce you to Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator. A🧵 Born on this day 250 years ago, he won Catholic emancipation in 1829 without violence, proving that mass political mobilisation could change British policy in Ireland. /1

Jesuits from across Europe reflect on what it means to find God in all things youtu.be/Yo-jrk-b7Hw?...

The Government rollback on commitments to reduce road speeds is quite simply shocking! 30kph speeds have been proven to reduce road accidents, injuries and fatalities but will now be left up to local Councils We’re calling on them to recommit to #Love30 www.dublincommuters.ie/post/combine...

So delighted to commend this book from my friend and colleague Matthew Whelan: "Christianity and Agroecology" cambridge.org/core/element... It’s available to download free of charge until August 4th. An amazing resource.

I wrote about the revolutionary failure of the proto-bicycle and how we risk repeating that error

www.jcfj.ie/2025/07/27/t... It's important we remember our history. 'The first bike was born out of crisis. In the wake of Mount Tambora’s eruption, old routines were no longer sustainable. Karl von Drais responded not by retreating into nostalgia but by inventing a new way of moving forward.'

Jesuits from four continents unite in the UK for Ecological Formation and Global Collaboration 2025 iern.org/jesuits-from... @campionhall.bsky.social @jesuitsbritain.bsky.social @jesuits.bsky.social @jesuitsglobal.bsky.social

'The most obvious difference between doughnut economies and modern economies is the voluntary acceptance of a limit to production and consumption.' The second in a three-part blog series introducing localsism by @nlsj.bsky.social l www.jcfj.ie/2025/07/11/t...

Left the house (Dublin) at 6.40 am and got to London Euston at 14.37 — under 7 hours. Lots of time for reading and two naps! Next stop…Paris.

Ahead of the launch of Studies Summer 2025 later this week, a selection of featured articles showcasing what can be expected from 'Undoing the Order of Things: Trump's Second Term'

We're off to Lyon!! A 🧵 Le Châtelard - eco-spiritual centre🌿 A time to gather and reflect with other Jesuit centres across Europe on 10 years of implementing Laudato sí and discussing a strategy for the years ahead around the ecological crisis. /1 #slowtravel #Irishferries #IrelandtoFrance

If you’re interested in #localism I recommend the Doomer Optimism podcast open.spotify.com/episode/6hLd...

Word on the street: Leo is a climate guy!

Green light for Strand Road cycle path as High Court rulling overturned by the Court of Appeal A High Court judgment which blocked a proposed 6-month trial of a cycle route on Strand Road in Sandymount in Dublin has today been overturned by the Court of Appeal. The project included making the road…

🚲 Victory for Sustainable Transport! The Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court's decision, clearing the path for the trial of the Strand Road cycle route in Sandymount. A celebratory group cycle organised by @ibike.ie will gather at Grand Canal Square tonight at 6pm.🚲

Philosophy of science aside, his presentation of medical cases of people suffering from mental and neurological illness is sensitising me to how scary or disorienting the world can be for them, particularly those with schizophrenia and right hemisphere strokes. They suffer so much.

Don’t ask which league. What matters is that we are on top of it! Great to see the next generation coming through.

I once took a Philosophy of Science class with Louis Caruana SJ at Heythrop College and got as far as asking “are things or relations more fundamental?” Now I am enjoying Dr Iain McGilchrist’s mind-opening answer to that question. What a book.

New post! Christians and consumerism #1 open.substack.com/pub/faceofth...

After six months of living in Sri Lanka, my main takeaway is that teabags are only for emergencies.

Thinking about ebikes helps us to understand what is at stake with #degrowth - a new blog from JCFJ www.jcfj.ie/2025/02/14/e...

Defying Storm Éowyn, our Ecology Intern, Siobhán McNamara spoke to a packed house at an ecological event held in Mallow last weekend. Read her hugely encouraging account of how local communities are stepping up on creation care: www.jcfj.ie/2025/01/31/s...