|
| |
for September 25, 2005
“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, 2005
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
|
for September 11, 2005
“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, 2005
“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, 2005
“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, 2005
“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, 2005
“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, 2005
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, 2005
‘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, 2005
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, 2005
‘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, 2005
“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, 2005
“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 |
