Liz Haney For the Jesuits, local witness and global awareness are calling many individuals, and the Society of Jesus as a whole, to do new work on the front lines of the ecological crisis. This work looks very different at times. Fr. Amalraj Chinnapan helps communities in Myanmar to find housing and restore their livelihoods after cyclones while Fr. Pedro Walpole uses research at the Environmental Science for Social Change in the Philippines to help communities make safe plans for when the urban poor are relocated. Fr. Jim Profit of the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Canada helps develop new retreats that enhance our spiritual understanding of our relationship with our environment. The responses within the Society of Jesus itself and communities of Jesuit-educated people may be diverse, but these are rooted in a common sentiment: a commitment to establish right relationships with God, others, and creation. Since the 1980s, the Society has witnessed the connections between justice for people and care for creation. Reflecting upon the experience of individual communities where people on the margins suffered the worst consequences of natural disasters, a Jesuit task force came up with this conclusion from Healing a Broken World: “We Jesuits cannot shut
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