Cardinal Michael Czerny S.J. was the Founding director of the African Jesuit AIDS Network 2002-2010, and is now Under-Secretary, Migrants and Refugees Section, https://migrants-refugees.va/
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"For the feast if St Ignatius last year, the Bishop of Oakland, Michael Barber S.J., invited me to preach the traditional sermon. The Mass took place in the magnificent Cathedral of Christ the Light. This beautiful ultra modern yet classical edifice is really worth beholding, via internet and especially in person. Here are some thoughts I shared:"...
"In my new work with migrants and refugees, Pope Francis says each of us, individually and communally, is responsible to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate them. Don’t these four active verbs also apply to those with HIV or AIDS and their people, the infected and the affected?"...
Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach S.J. was born in 1928, joined the Jesuits in 1948, was ordained in 1961, and served as Superior General from 1983-2008. After resigning, he returned to his beloved Lebanon and became assistant librarian at the Université de Saint-Joseph in Beirut, where he died on 26 November 2016, a few days short of his 88th birthday....
In early August Fr Michael Czerny attended a two-day conference on disarmament and security sponsored by Religions for Peace at the United Nations University in Tokyo. The Diocese of Hiroshima's programme included a concelebrated Mass at the Cathedral on August 6th. Fr Michael was invited to deliver a message at the end of the liturgy....
This post contains an excerpt from a Lisbon newspaper interview of Michael Czerny, SJ about the thousands migrating into Europe from Africa and the Middle East....
Like the Catholic First Sunday of Advent, in the Orthodox liturgical calendar going back to Byzantine times, the 1st of September is the first day of the ecclesiastical year. In 1989, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew decided to devote every 1st of September to praying for the environment. He commissioned a contemporary hymnographer from Mount Athos to compose special hymns for that day. This post is by Michael Czerny S.J. who works in the President's Office, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. In 2014 the Council was charged by Pope Francis to prepare the first draft of the Encyclical, signed on Pentecost 2015....
This week's 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina (23-31 August 2005) offers a timely incentive to read "Laudato si'". The Encyclical offers fresh comprehension of Katrina as an environmental-human-urban disaster 'impatiently waiting to happen again'. Michael Czerny S.J. works in the President's Office, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. In 2014 the Council was charged by Pope Francis to prepare the first draft of the Encyclical, signed on Pentecost 2015....
The world meeting of grassroots movements 'is a sign, a great sign', Pope Francis declared when receiving their representatives in the Vatican on 28 October 2014. What do the expressions 'popular or grassroots movements' mean? Where did the idea of inviting them to the Vatican come from, and how did the meeting unfold? But most of all: what does this sign tell us about the direction that Pope Francis is proposing for the Church and the world?...
In today's globalized world, the daily commercialization and widespread exploitation of life for profit blind us and prevent us from recognizing every person as our brother and sister and not as a source of gain. From the beginning of his Pontificate, Pope Francis has strongly denounced the trafficking of human beings, calling on all to fight the traffic and look after the victims. Let us make the Holy Father's plea our own, as in his message for the 2015 World Day of Peace proclaimed, "Slaves no more, but brothers and sisters"!"...
Michael Czerny S.J. was director of the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice in Toronto when, 25 years ago, the eight men and women at the Central American University (UCA) were assassinated. The then Provincial Bill Addley S.J. accompanied Michael to the funeral and, shortly thereafter, missioned him to El Salvador to help re-build the UCA. This is Michael's prayerful reminiscence....
