From the website of Gonzaga College, where Green heroes, Eamon Ryan and Ciarán Cuffe, were educated. It seems the message was lost on this pair of effete narcissists.Our schooling wishes our pupils to be men and women for others who make all the significant decisions "from the perspective of the poor".
Characteristics of a Jesuit Education
Originally Posted by Dolores Ibárruri
Dunno about that. Wasn't Cuffe down at St.Patrick's Cathedral a few years ago in support of that gang of Afghans who were busily engaged in showing utter disrespect for our laws, our places of worship and indeed ourselves.
I don't follow.
I think you'll find that sanctuary is quite an old idea.
"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep." - The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1
google Afghans cathedral
That was just a stunt.
He voted subsequently to cut the Christmas bonus and the minimum wage. And for the millionaire's Budget, 2010.
peter sutherland and michael mcdowell, those well-known altruists, are two more gonzaga boys of course.
they sure do make 'em.
Note the ideal is to teach the privileged to somehow make decisions 'from the perspective of the poor' not to teach the poor how to get to a positon where they can make the decisions for themselves. If they really wished to live up t their supposed ideal they'd be imparting the benefits of a fancy education for free.....
No, instead the Js want to maintain a ruling class that is properly grateful to them, so that it doesn't do anything foolish like remove the subsidy for private schools or secularise secondary eduction. Hypocrites, the lot of them.
'What is the crime of robbing a bank compared with the crime of founding one?'
I was there too!
Europa Conventus Delenda Est
Some of us went to a proper Jesuit school.
"......... we must sometimes listen to those who, consumed with zeal, have scant judgment or balance. To such ones the modern world is nothing but betrayal and ruin.........We feel bound to disagree with these prophets of doom who are forever forecasting calamity -- as though the world's end were imminent."
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