for December 25
“God destined the earth and all it contains for all people and nations so that all created things would be shared fairly by all humankind under the guidance of justice tempered by charity.”
Gaudium et Spes, 69
for December 18
“ If there is among you a poor person, one of your community you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother and/or sister, but you shall open your hand to them, and lend them sufficient for their need .”
Deut 15:7-8
for December 4
“The common good therefore involves all members of society, no one is exempt from cooperation, according to each one’s possibilities, in attaining it and developing it.”
No. 167 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching
for November 27
“The right of the Church (to proclaim the Gospel in the context of society) is at the same time a duty, because she cannot forsake this responsibility without denying herself and her fidelity to Christ.”
No. 71 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching
for November 20
“The Church’s love for the poor is inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes, by the poverty of Jesus and by his attention to the poor. This love concerns material poverty and also the numerous forms of cultural and religious poverty.”
No. 184 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching
for November 13
“Since something of the glory of God shines on the face of every person, the dignity of every person before God is the basis of the dignity of one person before another.”
No. 144 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching
for November 6
“With her social teaching the Church seeks to proclaim the Gospel and to make it present in the complex network of social relations. It is not simply a matter of reaching out to men and women in society…but of enriching and permeating society itself with the Gospel.
No. 62 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching
for October 23
“Christian love leads to denunciation, proposals and commitment to cultural and social projects; it prompts positive activity that inspires all who sincerely have the good of humanity at heart to make their contribution.”
No. 6 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching
for October 16
“How can we remain indifferent to the prospect of an ecological crisis which is making vast areas of our planet uninhabitable and hostile to humanity?” /
No. 5 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching
for October 2
“The whole of the Church’s social doctrine develops from the principle that affirms the inviolable dignity of the human person.”
No. 107 Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching
for September 25
“The Church, by reason of her role and competence, is not identified with any political community nor is it tied to any political system. It is at once the sign and the safeguard of the transcendental dimension of the human person.” (#76) Gaudium et Spes (The Church in the Modern World) Second Vatican Council, 1965
for September 18
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
for September 11
“We cannot teach that killing is wrong by killing ….The cycle of violence diminishes all of us – especially children.”
Confronting a Culture of Violence, US Catholic Bishops, 1994
for September 4
“Our society should not flinch from contemplating the suffering that violent crime brings. Recognition of this suffering should not lead to demands for vengeance.”
Statement on Capital punishment , US Bishops, 1980
for August 28
“Those who commit crimes do not give up their human dignity, and those who administer justice must not deny this God-given dignity.”
Catholic Bishops of New York State , 1982
for August 21
“The notion that the death of the wrongdoer will achieve justice is mistaken. It is only through reconciliation that the violation of the dignity of the victim is capable of being restored.”
Bishop Emeritus of Bridgetown , Anthony Dickson, Reconciliation vs the Death Penalty
for August 14
“No sincere Christian can refuse concern for or involvement in the struggle for justice and dignity.”
Archbishop Samuel Carter SJ Kingston, Jamaica
for August 7
We know that every effort to better society, especially where injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us. By what right have we catalogued persons as first-class persons or second-class persons? In the theology of human nature, there is only one class – children of God.
(From The Violence of Love Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador .)
for July 31
‘It is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly. It is likewise unworthy to spend money on them that should as a priority go to the relief of human misery. One can love animals; one should not direct to them the affection due only to persons.’ (2418) Catechism of the Catholic Church
for July 24
Peace.. is rightly and appropriately called ‘an enterprise of justice’ (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that harmony built into human society by its divine founder, and actualised by people as they thirst after ever greater justice. (78) Gaudium et Spes: The Church in the Modern World: Vatican Council II
for July 17
‘I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to the violence, we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, the exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, representation.’
Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador .
for July 10
“The Church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being… a defender of the rights of the poor…a humaniser of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society…that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history.”
Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador
for July 3
“The struggle for justice, to which we are called, is not something that is peripheral to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but an indispensable part of the preaching of the Gospel.”
Archbishop Samuel Carter SJ. Kingston , Jamaica
for June 26
“Peace is the fruit of the right ordering of things with which the divine founder has invested human society and which must be brought about by humanity in its thirst for an ever more perfect reign of justice.” (78) Gaudium et Spes: The Church in the Modern World : Vatican Council II
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for June 19
“All human beings ought to have ready access to all that is necessary for living a genuinely human life: for example, food, clothing, housing, the right freely to choose their state of life and set up a family, the right to education, work, to their good name, to respect, to proper knowledge, the right to act according to the dictates of conscience and to safeguard their privacy, and rightful freedom, including freedom of religion.” (26) Gaudium et Spes – The Church in the Modern World : Vatican Council II
for June 12
“The equal application of the law, community policing, rehabilitation programmes in prisons, the abolition of the death penalty, police reform, the decommissioning of the military are all proposals designed to reduce state violence as a contributing factor to a generalised culture of violence.’”(32) Pastoral Letter on Crime and Violence: Antilles Episcopal Conference
for June 5
“A theory that makes profit the exclusive norm and ultimate end of economic activity is morally unacceptable. The disordered desire for money cannot but produce perverse effects. It is one of the causes of the many conflicts which disturb the social order.”
(2424) Catechism of the Catholic Church
for May 29
“I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to the violence; we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, the exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, representation.”
Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador .
for May 22
“…any kind of social or cultural discrimination in basic personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, colour, social conditions, language or religion, must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God’s design.” (29) Gaudium et Spes: The Church in the Modern World : Vatican Council II
for May 15
“But any kind of social or cultural discrimination in basic personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, colour, social conditions, language or religion, must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God’s design.” (29) Gaudium et Spes : The Church in the Modern World: Vatican Council II
for May 8
“ Charity will never be true charity unless it takes justice into account…. Let no one attempt with small gifts of charity to exempt themselves from the great duties imposed by justice.” (49) Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris
for May 1
“It is up to the Christian communities to analyse with objectivity the situation which is proper to their own country, to shed on it the light of the Gospel’s unalterable words and to draw principles of reflection, norms of judgement and directives for action from the social teaching of the Church.”
(4) – Pope Paul V1, A Call to Action , 1971
for April 24
“The Church has the right, indeed the duty, to proclaim justice on the social, national and international level, and to denounce instances of injustice, when the fundamental rights of men and women and their very salvation demand it.” (8) Justice and Peace in a New Caribbean : The Roman Catholic Bishops of the Antilles
for April 17
“Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.”
Pope John Paul II
for April 10
“Every perspective on economic life that is human, moral, and Christian must be shaped by three questions:
What does the economy do for people?
What does it do to people?
And how do people participate in it?”
Economic Justice for All (1) Pope John Paul II
for April 3
“ The Church invites all Christians to take up a double task of inspiring and of innovating, in order to make structures evolve, so as to adapt them to the real needs of today.” (50) World Synod of Catholic Bishops, 1971
for March 27
“If the Church is involved in defending or promoting human dignity, she does so in accordance with her mission. She has learned that an indispensable part of her evangelising mission is made up of works on behalf of justice and human promotion.”
Pope John Paul II, Puebla , Mexico , 1979
for March 20
“The Church has the right, indeed the duty, to proclaim justice on the social, national and international level, and to denounce instances of injustice, when the fundamental rights of men and women and their very salvation demand it.” (8) Justice and Peace in a New Caribbean : The Roman Catholic Bishops of the Antilles
for March 13
“ The road to holiness for most of us lies in our secular vocations. …We cannot separate what we believe from how we act in the market place and the broader community, for this is where we make our primary contribution to the pursuit of economic justice.” (25) Economic Justice for All – US Catholic Bishops, (1986)
for March 6
“ Any kind of social or cultural discrimination in basic personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, colour, social conditions, language or religion, must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God’s design.” (29) Gaudium et Spes : The Church in the Modern World: Vatican Council II
for February 27
“ Any society in which a few control most of the wealth and the masses are left in want is a sinful society.” (34) Justice and Peace in a New Caribbean : The Roman Catholic Bishops of the Antilles
for February 20
“As we look around, we continue to see inequality, poverty, exclusion, prejudice, hatred, high levels of crime and horrendous acts of violence. These are challenging us to take responsibility for our society and to seek ways to address its social problems.” (4) Pastoral Letter on Crime and Violence – Antilles Episcopal Conference
for February 13
“Wherever, the progress in technology and economic life, there can be neither justice nor peace in the world, so long as people fail to realise how great is their dignity; for they have been created by God and are His children.”
Pope John XXIII, Mother and Teacher
for February 6
Care of Creation
“Man’s (woman’s) dominion over inanimate and other living beings granted by the Creator is not absolute; it is limited by concern for the quality of life of one’s neighbour, including generations to come; it requires a religious respect for the integrity of creation.”
(2416) Catechism of the Catholic Church
for January 30
“Every group must take into account the needs and legitimate aspirations of every other group, and even those of the human family as a whole.” (26) Gaudium et Spes : The Church in the Modern World : Vatican Council II
for January 23
“Within a country which belongs to each one, all should be equal before the law, find equal admittance to economic, cultural, civic and social life, and benefit from a fair sharing of the nation’s riches”
The Development of Peoples – Pope Paul VI 1967
for January 16
“It is our duty ‘to defend and promote the dignity and fundamental rights of the human person.”
(9) Justice and Peace in a New Caribbean: The Roman Catholic Bishops of the Antilles
for January 9
“Christ demands an openness that is more than benign attention, more than token actions or half-hearted efforts that leave the poor as destitute as before or even more. .. Riches and freedom create a special obligation.”
Pope John Paul II – Address at Yankee Stadium, New York , 1979.
for January 2
Peace cannot be achived on earth unless people’s welfare is safeguarded and people freely and in a spirit of mutual trust share with one another the riches of their minds and their talents.
Guadium et Spes: The Church in the Modern World – Vatican Council II
