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CCSJ calls for urgent action to create a just and merciful criminal justice system

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All people of goodwill have been invited by Pope Francis to join the Catholic Church in observing this Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy which he has initiated, under the theme: “Merciful Like the Father”.  It is taken from the Beatitudes. Jesus said in His Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy”.

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Finding solutions to enhance our democracy

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

“Any society, any family that cannot share or take seriously the pain of its children, and views that pain as something normal or expected, is a society condemned to remain hostage to itself, prey to the very things which cause that pain.”  (Pope Francis)

Pope Francis uttered the words above in his speech to inmates at Curran-Fromhold correctional facility, Philadelphia, USA in September 2015. As Alan Yuhas reported in the UK Guardian, he urged inmates, their families and the correctional officers there “to believe in the possibility of rehabilitation, condemning societies that normalise their suffering”.

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Christian groups tackle crime

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

Earlier this year, Pope Francis referred to “Pius XII’s assertion that ‘the sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin’… Losing the sense of sin causes others to pay for our ‘Christian mediocrity’…When the sense of sin is lost, so is the sense of the Kingdom of God lost.”  In its place, he said, “…emerges a very powerful anthropological vision, in which ‘I can do anything’.”

On May 14, a letter by Dr Ramchand Rampersad appeared in the Newsday under the headlined, “TT now a land of hopelessness.” It stated: “It appears that even God has given up Trini citizenship and if so who can really blame him?” We Christians must categorically reject such statements. 

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