Glasgow: School launches centre for Social & Environmental Justice

St Aloysius College in Glasgow is launching a new Centre for Social and Environmental Justice with a lecture series this month, featuring three prominent speakers. The Centre will aim to promote greater awareness of social justice and environmental issues through activities and speaker programmes, and will build on the good practice already established in the College's 'Service to Others' activities such as the Arrupe Programme, Children's Fund and Lourdes Pilgrimage. The first speakers to visit St Aloysius College under this new umbrella will be Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, Fr Richard Leonard SJ and Sister Helen Prejean CSJ.

Brother Consolmagno is the Curator of Meteorites and Coordinator of Public Relations at the Vatican Observatory; his lecture will be taking place on Monday, 16 September. Just nine days later, Fr Richard Leonard SJ, Director of the Australian Catholic Media Council, who spoke at the College last year, will speak on Wednesday, 25 September. Fr Leonard is also keynote speaker at the College Prize Giving event at the Royal Concert Hall on the following day. Finally, Sister Helen Prejean CSJ, author of the book, 'Dead Man Walking' and a campaigner against the death penalty, will speak on Monday, 28 October.

All lectures will take place in the School Hall, St Aloysius College, 45 Hill St, Glasgow, G3 6RJ. The Centre for Social and Environmental Justice Lectures will begin at 7.30pm and admission is free.