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Tucson, Az.  Picture by Jim Scully

For more than a hundred years, in America, there has been a strong movement for social justice. From the women’s suffrage movement to civil rights, voting rights and equality. Today most Americans support it. We are still striving for social justice today.

 

Justice as a biblical concept is concerned with the “right order,” that is with having life arranged according to the plan of our Creator. Justice covers a wide range of areas including: religious, political, social, and environmental. Social Justice in a Christian context embraces all of those. We constantly seek the paths and policies that will enable everyone and everything to flourish as it was meant to in the divine plan.

Catholic social teaching is a central and essential element of our faith. Its roots are in the Hebrew prophets who announced God's special love for the poor and called God's people to a covenant of love and justice. It is a teaching founded on the life and words of Jesus Christ, who came "to bring glad tidings to the poor . . . liberty to captives . . . recovery of sight to the blind"(Lk 4:18-19), and who identified himself with "the least of these," the hungry and the stranger (cf. Mt 25:45). Catholic social teaching is built on a commitment to the poor. This commitment arises from our experiences of Christ in the eucharist.”

https://www.usccb.org/resources/sharing-catholic-social-teaching-challenges-and-directions

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