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Sci-Tech for the poor: A preferential option of LCRD

The Background
Post 1969… I was completing my novitiate. We Jesuits were assiduously proclaiming our “Faith and Justice” mandate, our “preferential option for the poor”. The ‘Social Activists’ became the proclaimed flag bearers of this Vision-Mission, and the social action apostolate donned its mantle and came into its own. However, I had perceived a ‘call within a call’ to be a Jesuit scientist. Bewildered, I observed their intense response and felt challenged. I questioned myself about the relevance of my calling.

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