by Beth | Jun 16, 2004 | Justice and Peace
National Council of Churches – Election-Year Initiative Challenges Candidates, Voters to Address Poverty. . .“What will you do to end poverty?” A new national alliance of community and faith-based groups wants an answer to that question from public officials,...
by Beth | Jun 8, 2004 | Justice and Peace
MELBOURNE, June 8, 2004 (theage.com.au): It’s time to put pressure on the Sudanese Government to stop the dying in Darfur, write Susan Rice and Gayle Smith in The Age – In Western Sudan, the Government of Sudan and its proxy, the Janjaweed Arab militia,...
by Beth | Jun 4, 2004 | Justice and Peace
SYDNEY, June 2, 2004:(tai.org.au): Ninety per cent of charitable and community organisations in Australia believe the Federal Government is determined to gag their right to free speech, according to a leading public interest think tank. The finding was made in a...
by Beth | Jun 2, 2004 | Justice and Peace
Education for Justice Web Site features a list with brief descriptions of nonpartisan resources for use by Catholics in the 2004 elections. New resources will be added periodically. 2004 Election Resources for Catholics...
by Beth | May 29, 2004 | Justice and Peace
From an article called “Lawyers for the Poor,” published in the Fordham Law Journal: “The big problem with Catholic Social Teaching about the law is that Catholic lawyers and law teachers ignore it, as much as other Christians and Jews ignore the substance behind...
by Beth | May 27, 2004 | Justice and Peace
BOLOGNA, Italy, MAY 25, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Dehonian Press has published 1,865 pages of papal teachings on peace. The first volume of the “Enchiridion of Peace” is a compendium of the most significant papal pronouncements on peace from Leo XIII’s...