At the end of July JCFJ hosted an evening of mixed emotions to mark two occasions.

Introduction The rural scenes on view from the Holyhead to London train provided a fitting backdrop to reading the memoir of James Rebanks, a farmer and author based in the Lake District where his family have lived and worked for over six hundred years. On a recent sail and rail journey from Dublin to Louvain,… Read more »

Earlier this month, one of Ireland’s major carrot producers, Hughes Farming, went into administration.

For many people, Lent is a time to temporarily abstain from chocolate. Is this self-denial pleasing to God? Niall Leahy SJ takes a closer look at the chocolate industry before making up his mind.

There are many ways of making the connection between environmentalism and Jesus. An important one, I believe, is his humility.

If you do a search for the word ‘local’ in Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ letter on the care of our common home, you will discover that the document is peppered with references to all sorts of local concerns, actors and solutions.

My last post focused on localism as practiced by small farmers, but localism is as much an urban phenomenon as a rural one.

As we accelerate towards climate chaos, more and more people are looking to ramp off the globalist superhighway and make their way through life more slowly and simply on winding localist trails.