Social Justice Secretariat

Documents

SEDOS Seminar 2009|SEDOS|
12-16 May in Assisi, Italy Read more...
Latin American Agenda 2008|Pedro Casaldáliga, José María Vigil|
The English translation of an annual publication, this year under the title "Politics is dead, long live politics!" Read more...
January 2008 statements by the Kenya Episcopal Conference and the Religious Superior Conferece of Kenya|KEC, RSCK|
Two statements encouraging Christians in Kenya to stand up against the violence sparked by post-election protests. Read more...
Major Catholic Social Teaching Documents|Loyola Institute|
The Loyola Institute in Sydney, Australia, has a collection of the encyclicals and other texts that make up Catholic Social Teaching. Read more...
Climate Change: A Focal Point of Global, Intergenerational and Ecological Justice|The German Bishops' Conference|
An Expert Report on the Challenge of Global Climate Change, with a Foreword by the President of the German Bishops' Conference Read more...
God Hears the Cry of the Oppressed|Bishops' Conference of Zimbabwe|
Released on 5th April 2007, this pastoral letter of the Bishops' Conference of Zimbabwe for Easter 2007 calls for an end to violence in Zimbabwe and a national day of prayer and fasting. Read more...
This is Progress (Populorum Progressio)|Progressio.org.uk|
An abridged and highly readable version of Populorum Progressio, the groundbreaking Encyclical Letter of Pope Paul VI, written in 1967. Read more...
Catholic Social Teaching in the Zambian context|JCTR|
Link to the CST section of the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection, Zambia. Read more...
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church|Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace|
This collection of paragraphs from the Catechism was published by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in 2005 to amend the lack of references to Social Justice in the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Read more...
Notes on the Development of Catholic Social Teaching|William Ryan SJ|
This 2000 lecture reflects on more than a century of efforts by the Church to address social problems such as mass unemployment, starvation wages or political oppression, that are not the result of an individual's personal transgressions. Read more...