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Like The Olympics But Lots More Winners

This week approximately four hundred Jesuit educators have gathered at Boston College for the first ever International Colloquium on Jesuit Secondary Education.
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Don MacMillan, S.J. honored with Robert M. Holstein “Faith Doing Justice” Award

Ignatian Solidarity Network honored Don MacMillan, S.J. with the Robert M. Holstein "Faith Doing Justice" Award on Tuesday April 24, 2012 at Boston College. More than 125 people gathered to celebrate Macmillan's tremendous witness to the social teachings of Catholic faith through his solidarity with the economically poor and marginalized in the United States and around the world.
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Did You Know? | A Reflection from Ecuador

I was on the bus a few days ago coming back from another day at Manos and sitting next to Josue, one of our ayudantes (helpers) at Manos. In the silence of bus ride, he all of sudden turns to me and says: “Did you know that 80% of the people in my country are poor? And most of them are so poor, I wouldn’t even know where to begin to help them.” As he turned back forward, my jaw was naturally at my feet. I did in fact know this fact; it is well known that since the 1970’s, Ecuador’s drastic economic situation has spared few. But I was so shocked and humbled by this teenager’s insight. How terrible it must be to know this fact – that 4 out of 5 people in your own nation can barely afford to put food on the table and keep a roof over their head (and many of them cannot.) It’s such a small fact, but it has big implications. How is Ecuador, a nation that spends 50% of its budget servicing debt, supposed to help its own citizens? The gravity of the situation is even more weighing; where does one start to address such evasive poverty?