Andrew Morrison

Andrew Morrison, SJ (5 June 1919 – 26 January 2004) was a Guyanese Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, journalist, and pro-democracy activist.

Early life and education Morrison was born on 5 June 1919 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He attended high school at St. Stanislaus College and attended a Jesuit institution for college. He studied accounting, and following graduation, he returned to Georgetown to work at an accounting firm.

Career Morrison joined the Society of Jesus in 1949 at the age of 30, and was sent to Great Britain to study for the priesthood, He was ordained a priest on 31 July 1957, the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus.

Morrison's first international public episode, was his coverage of the Jim Jones led mass suicide-massacre, which took place in 1978 in Guyana. A year later, an assassination attempt upon his life failed because a fellow Jesuit was mistaken for Morrison. Father Bernard Darke was brutally murdered. Such attempts to frustrate Morrison's quest for justice and rights had absolutely no effect upon him. He publicly exposed a plot by members of the governing regime to assassinate an opposition Guyanese politician (Rodney) in the paper he headed, the Catholic Standard. Amidst awards and honours from the international community, he lamented the state of his countrymen and further hardships experienced by the certain fellow Jesuit elements, supporters of his cause. Connors was deported from Guyana.

Morrison died in his Georgetown home on 26 January 2004, at the age of 84.

He was awarded a Maria Moors Cabot Special Citation by Columbia University in New York in 1985 and the Titus Brandsma Award in the Netherlands in 1992.