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[email protected] http://www.sjweb.info/sjs/ JESUIT SOCIAL CENTRES STRUCTURING THE SOCIAL APOSTOLATE Social Justice Secretariat Rome, February 2005 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS his study could not have seen the light of print without the work of an entire team, of various groups of people contributing from far-flung lands at different moments in time, and of people nearer home who put it all together. It was at a meeting of Assistancy Social Coordinators that the idea of bringing Tout a study of Jesuit Social Centres was first mooted, and they have worked with the Social Secretariat through the whole process, collecting data and responses. The definition of a Jesuit Social Centre as used in this study was finalised at that meeting in May 2004. The Assistancy Coordinators read the first draft of the study, made valuable suggestions, and were also involved in the Recommendations made to Fr General and presented in Chapter 10 of the present work. For all this we are especially grateful to: Fr. Antoine Berilengar AOC, Fr. Jorge Julio Mejia COL, Fr. Rafael Moreno Villa MEX, Fr. Paulo Sérgio Vaillant DIA – BHA, Fr. Javier Arellano Yanguas LOY, Fr. Christopher Boles BRI, Fr. Francesco De Luccia ITA, Fr. Andreas Gösele GSU, Fr. Robin Schweiger SVN, Fr. Roberto Yap PHI, Fr. Joseph Xavier MDU, Fr. Jim Stormes USA. Thanks also to: Costanza