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the local church had to be involved in the refugee apostolate in the local countries. We recognised a severe refugee problem in Rome with Eritrean and Somali refugees, so for credibility we got involved here in Rome, setting up the Centro Astalli. The fullness of life That meeting made a very important remark about what we were doing in this new ministry. We are not concerned just with the survival of refugees, but with their full development. Our apostolate should therefore aim at improving the quality of refugee work already being done rather than adding our name to the list of existing agencies. This could be achieved by making men available rather than raising funds, although the latter may be necessary to facilitate our work in the camps. We also felt that the element of urgency must not lead us to ignore preventive action. We had the structures to do this in the Society, and had to be alert to the possibilities of doing what others were not doing or could not do. One of the main practical problems in those early days was how to relate to agencies with whom we shared the work. At the time we felt we did not want to become an agency ourselves, yet we wanted very much to maintain our own identity and to work closely with the local church. How do we respond? Finally, we considered our fourth topic: What was our response to be? Our three experts, Fr Dieter Scholz, Fr Joseph Joblin and Fr Robert Paskey, all made concrete suggestions on the second day of the meeting. We tried to put these together and come up with one unified proposal. The Jesuit Refugee Service At the end of the meeting Fr Arrupe promised a full account of it and further consultation with the Heads of Provincials’ Conferences. The first appeared in the special issue of Promotio Justitiae already referred to and the second took place later the same month in the Curia. As a result of all this, Fr Arrupe published his letter to 44
the whole Society of 14 November 1980, formally setting up the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Curia as part of the Social Secretariat. So after that letter we tried to start. Initially there was a fair amount of opposition in the Curia. Some believed the Curia should not get involved in direct work, but rather should be the place to co-ordinate works and projects. There was some questioning by some of the Assistants. No channels existed, so I initially saw Fr Arrupe once each week to report on developments, though this eventually led to meetings only once a month. We responded to certain problems, as we were able. One was helping a young Italian Jesuit working with Bishop Gasparini. Another was helping to prepare an address which Fr Arrupe gave at a meeting of African bishops. Structural changes I will stop here for the rest is history. The work of JRS expanded rapidly and began to occupy so much time that I was obliged to ask Fr Dieter Scholz to come and share the load. After Fr Arrupe’s stroke, Fr Dezza continued to support it without wishing to make any structural changes. But, as soon as I left the Curia in 1984, Fr Kolvenbach separated the JRS from the Social Secretariat and Fr Scholz became its first independent director. 45
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and a letter to the whole Society a
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dries up? Certainly resources are n
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Michael Coyne/JRS Uganda 1994 Celso
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Jesuits as a body. In 1750, the yea
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Displacement now Mark Raper SJ Extr
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the international community collude
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world needs and fears the Russian S
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Christian reflections and responses
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