Theme+Social+Justice

What is Social Justice?

The belief that every individual and group is entitled to fair and equal rights and participation in social, educational, and economic opportunities.

Preferential option for the poor and vulnerable: Jesus taught that on the Day of Judgement God will ask what each person did to help the poor and needy: "Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me." The Catholic church teaches that through words, prayers and deeds one must show solidarity with, and compassion for, the poor. When instituting public policy the "preferential option for the poor" should always be kept at the forefront. The moral test of any society is "how it treats its most vulnerable members. The poor have the most urgent moral claim on the conscience of the nation. People are called to look at public policy decisions in terms of how they affect the poor."

[|United States Conference of Catholic Bishops] Go to the left-hand column and click on "social justice issues."

This document is a list of social justice issues from the Catholic Charities of Dallas

[|Catholic Social Action - Archdiocese of Cincinnati]