CSAN Statement on General Election 2024
29 May 2024
Catholics are called to exercise active citizenship and contribute to the building up of God’s Kingdom of “love, justice and peace” (Gaudium et Spes, 39) as we head to the polls on 04 July 2024.
Catholics are called to exercise active citizenship and contribute to the building up of God’s Kingdom of “love, justice and peace” (Gaudium et Spes, 39) as we head to the polls on 04 July 2024.
Dignity in work is one of the best-known features of Catholic Social Teaching (those aspects of Church teaching that concern social and economic structures in society), but what does it mean to “do justice” and deliver it in practice?
A typical weekend at our parish of Christ the King and Holy Family involves our parish SVP group getting furniture to an empty new home for 3 asylum seekers from Sudan who have been turfed out of hotel provision paid for by the government.
Justice. We all have an idea what that means. But there are different visions of justice. So we can’t take it for granted.
To understand our own tradition, we need to go back to the source.
This campaign is a dynamic, collaborative grassroots movement to encourage and stimulate the work of justice in parishes, schools, charities and chaplaincies – an invitation again to see what’s going on around us, in our communities, what’s going on with people, especially people in situations of poverty, what light does the Gospel throw on what we see and what can we do – in our own place – to work with people in situations of poverty, to walk alongside people in solidarity, with compassion, working for justice, advocating for change.
If you have updates, information, questions or ideas about Do Justice campaigns in your community, we want to hear from you. You can tell us about it by getting in touch.