More political than pious, Michael Campbell-Johnston devoted his life as a Jesuit priest to promoting social justice. The six years during which he served as provincial of his order in Great Britain were for him the least sought after and the least significant. It was the hands-on work he did with underprivileged communities that he valued. He helped found and establish the Jesuit Refugee Service. He fought for the rights of the poor and oppressed. He ran camps for displaced people during El Salvador’s civil war.
When he was young, he remembers, he was struck by an article in a newspaper. It was illustrated with two photographs. One of them showed an archbishop elevated to the rank of military general by a