With an Introduction by Peter McVerry SJ Why might this man be declared a saint? Pedro Arrupe, twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus, re-founded the Jesuits and re-cast Ignatian spirituality for our times.

Considers how Christ exemplifies mercy, and calls on Christians everywhere to act with an unerring sense of compassion towards others.

An attempt to open a debate about the meaning of Christian faith and the obligations that belong to the Christian community towards the less fortunate.

In 1974, as a newly ordained priest, Fr Peter McVerry SJ chose to live and work in the Inner City with a small group of other Jesuits. He began working with young people who had dropped out of school, were involved in crime, living in dysfunctional f