For Good Friday, we at JCFJ are thinking about how the path past the cross of Jesus leads us towards those our society wants to forget. www.jcfj.ie/2026/04/03/t...

In advance of our Annual Lecture on April 21st, our guest speaker, Pieter De Witte, was talking with the kind people at Spirit FM this morning. 📻Listen below to get a taster of the lecture📻 www.spiritradio.ie/podcast/piet...

Irish Cycling Campaign Statement on the Fatal Road Traffic Collision in Dublin City Centre on Wed 01 April 2026 www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/irish-cyclin...

Our annual lecture will be held on Tuesday, April 21st. More details on our website and how to register. www.jcfj.ie/2026/04/02/j...

A preventable crisis normalised as the Government now seem to publish monthly figures with no comment.

***Registration Now Open*** To register for the JCFJ Annual Lecture 2026, please RSVP to [email protected] This year's paper - “For we know not what we do. Reflections on punishment, community and forgiveness”- will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Pieter De Witte. 1/

John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker from the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology kick off a day of discussion at the Loyola Institute in TCD, considering the work required on integral ecology today.

I have a short radio essay on Divine Sparks tonight, RTE 1 @ 10PM. I'll be reflecting on the Pope's recent call to political leaders to examine their consciences about war and how this has echoes in 4th century Milan www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

📅 Save the Date Prof. Dr Pieter De Witte is a prison chaplain and visiting professor at Leuven. He organises and teaches service-learning courses in Belgian prisons and detention centres, bringing together university and prison-based students to explore the meaning of punishment and detention.

***Save the Date*** Registration will open soon for the JCFJ Annual Lecture 2026. This year, we welcome Pieter De Witte from KU Leuven with a paper titled "For we know not what we do. Reflections on punishment, community and forgiveness."

Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers. Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.

www.jcfj.ie/2026/03/27/i... How can small growers and producers keep up with Goliath supermarket prices?

I can still be a St Pat's supporter and be very excited that @jcfjustice.bsky.social are working with @bfcdublin.bsky.social on the possibility of developing community wealth building for the northside of Dublin. Sean McCabe here laying out the vision

Homelessness defies the “stereotypical type of person”, it is not someone who does not want to get a job or someone who wastes their money away. They are families, people with multiple jobs, and the elderly. Register below to join us next week us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Excellent coverage by @eoinglackin.bsky.social on how poverty intensifies when people are sent to prison - even if they gain prison jobs - leading to hunger, exploitation, much tougher detoxs, and the inability to fulfil small parental roles like gifts.

New blog by @keithadams.bsky.social on the absurdist ordeal of Patrick Sibanyoni and the paradox of the psychiatric prisoner. "... the State objecting to the release of a person from prison for healthcare which the State has failed to provide." www.jcfj.ie/2026/03/19/t...

@studiesirishreview.bsky.social Spring 2026 is available now. The issue commemorates the Jesuits' formal commitment to social justice as a constituent of faith. Found at select bookstores and online at studiesirishreview.ie #socialjustice #jesuits #studies #faith #faithandjustice

In Ireland and across Europe, we are witnessing a “quiet crisis” in how we live together. Policies feel like they are imposed on people; there is a coarsening of how we disagree, and even on a local level, people feel lonelier and more rootless. Join Us this evening us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Congratulations to Dermot McCarthy, one of our board members, on receiving the John Bruton Award for Leadership in Faith and Public Life!

'While there may not be a secret cabal, ‘expert reports’, consultants’ opinion and Government ministers influenced by intensive lobbying.. often decide what is for the greater good of the country. This strategy does not leave much room for a truly democratic conversation' www.jcfj.ie/2026/03/11/f...

I try to set out as clearly as possible the case against rent deregulation, focusing on the politics of housing @pbresnihan.bsky.social @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social @davidmurphyrte.bsky.social @keithadams.bsky.social @maoiliosarey.bsky.social theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/are-rents-...

Ireland’s prisons are dangerously overcrowded. Our prison system is failing society and those whom society has locked away. 👥 Do we look away and wash our hands of the undignified treatment? Or do we consider the prisoner in light of the legacy of Pope Francis and Jesus? bit.ly/Lententalkre...

Lent invites us not only into personal reflection and conversion, but also into a deeper awareness of how our faith calls us to respond to the needs of our world 🌍 Email faithrenewal@knockshrine to receive the Zoom link

catholicethics.com/forum/the-dj... 'Introducing dance as a common element allows us to see how worship bumps up against protest, and protest can be joyous as opposed to simply combative.'

www.jcfj.ie/2026/02/26/t... 'EoF was founded on a call from Pope Francis, for young entrepreneurs, economists, and changemakers ....to begin imagining an economy inspired... [to be] an inclusive, sustainable economic future.' Could this view of economics be the change this country needs?

The uncomfortable truth is that much of the chocolate we consume is relatively cheap because someone else, and somebody much poorer than us, is paying the price. Our bargain is their poverty and our pleasure is their pain.  www.jcfj.ie/2026/02/19/n...

‘Informed by decades of visiting and ministering to men in prison, he (Fr Peter McVerry) often quips that prison is the only public service with no waiting lists. Never has this been more true, which is particularly clear after the documentary’s revelations.’

I forgot to tell you guys but I went on the radio last week to tell the people of Ireland that the storms are bad and gonna get worse. My colleagues talked me down from going full Prophet on the listeners about just how bad the climate crisis is gonna get www.spiritradio.ie/podcast/kevi...

Last week, RTE's Psychiatric Care Scandal docs and Ivan Rosney's death report shone light on the some of the darkest recesses of Irish society. "Prisons ... exacerbate the rapid fraying of a person’s mind. It is not too much to draw an equivalence to torture." www.jcfj.ie/2026/02/16/p...

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl... Mid-week good news! Imagine being able to stroll down several streets in Dublin without any cars.

Everyone in @jcfjustice.bsky.social is very excited about this from @mickbyrne.bsky.social

Learn about the Economy of Francesco, young adult community. Talk about the issues that you care about and the changes you want to see in the world.⁠ ⁠ www.Francescoeconomy... ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #care #commongood #irisheconomy

Still looking for people, if you regularly use an e-scooter, please get in touch #escooters

"For women in prison, one abuser is replaced with another. The U.S. calls this “justice.”"

www.jcfj.ie/2026/02/03/t... 'Ireland proved that even smaller nations can lead by example, demonstrating that financial commitment to climate justice is both possible and necessary.' Now we must continue to be examples in our community and further afield

www.jcfj.ie/issue/99-the... We are delighted to share the electronic copy of WN 99 The Hungry Gap: Food and Social Justice An excellent look into how what we do with our food has consequences.

New blog by @kevinhargaden.bsky.social on rise of objections (and shakedowns). "We're failing to meet our climate targets ... The rate of road deaths rises. And even when it isn’t motivated by whingeing, there is something depressingly reactive about objection culture. www.jcfj.ie/2026/01/16/o...

A very helpful source of sound people to keep up to date on the small wins and the ongoing struggle for environmental justice in Ireland

New IPAN blog on treatment experienced by women in Irish prisons. "Crimes of misery and survival should make women targets for care, not custody. So, let’s not keep putting women behind bars and instead fund meaningful community initiatives." www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/blog/women-i...

www.jcfj.ie/2026/01/08/t... Should we have to turn to gambling to be homeowners?

JCFJ extends our sympathies to the Marist Sisters, the family and friends of Sr Brigid Reynolds, and to everyone at @socialjusticeire.bsky.social who are mourning. The Gospel assures us that shewill be reunited in the next life with all whom she served and advocated for in this life.

Looking to 2026, our predictions for housing and prison policy are bleak (sorry!) with some signs of hope in environmental justice and theology. Ultimately, we resolve to not "embrace the politics of fear" and enter 2026 knowing "the world is enough for all our needs." www.jcfj.ie/2026/01/01/a...

Our latest @jcfjustice.bsky.social research on migration and faith is featured on RTÉ today. Faith communities must be recognised as essential strands of the common good. Excellent interview with our brilliant research assistant, Sophie Manaeva, on the ground-level impact. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

www.jcfj.ie/research/usi... 'If costs are affecting the property market and the delivery of social housing, while in the middle of a housing and homelessness crisis, it is logical that we explore every possible option for bringing costs down.' From our new report!

My first report with @jcfjustice.bsky.social came out today, entitled “Using the Kenny Report to End Land Hoarding”, and is available to read now: www.jcfj.ie/research/usi...

I wrote a blog for the Irish Penal Abolition Network on prison overcrowding as a symptom, not the disease. This is the first in a series of posts of an abolitionist hue by IPAN members. www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/blog/blog-po...

Reverence

TII says there's nothing it can do to fix the traffic on the M50. They could try building Metro West.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... 'Most of these women don’t represent a danger to society...' It is important we take a step back and look at the damage we are causing by locking them away There are many rehabilitative ways to help these women! Building more prisons is not one of them.

Our Social Theologian, Kevin Hargaden, is currently at the #aarsbl conference in Boston, where he presented a paper on how to think theologically about the Future Generations initiative, a campaign that JCFJ is a constituent member of: fitforfuturegenerations.eu