The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement for 2019 – 2020, Making it Real: Genuine human encounter in our digital world, affirms the positive possibilities for encounter and solidarity offered by new digital media, while warning of those elements of our digital world that may be harmful.
The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement for 2018–19 is titled A Place to Call Home: Making a home for everyone in our land. It confronts the growing challenge of homelessness and housing insecurity in Australia. The latest Census figures show that more than 116,000 Australians are homeless – something unacceptable for a rich and well-resourced nation like ours.
The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement for 2017–18 is titled ‘Everyone’s Business: Developing an inclusive and sustainable economy’. The Bishops call for an economy that is founded on justice and offers dignity and inclusion to every person.
The number of Australians aged 65 and over will more than double by the middle of the century. This has been rightly described as ‘the great success story of human development’.
The Social Justice Statement 2015-16 invites us to reflect on the call of Jesus to welcome those in most need and to give comfort to those who come to us in flight from fear and suffering.
A Crown for Australia: Striving for the Best in Our Sporting Nation The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement 2014–2015 challenges us to look at the place of sport in our lives. Where are its strengths and how can we ensure that sport can thrive… Read More »Social Justice Statement 2014-15
The Social Justice Statements of the Australian Catholic Bishops: 1988 – 2013 Foreword by Bishop Christopher Saunders Introduction by Sandie Cornish Paperback, A4, 303 pages.
Edited by Sandie Cornish and Andrea Dean, essays by 17 contributors. Preface by Archbishop Christopher Prowse and Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM Conv. ISBN 978-0-6483727-5-2 paperback ISBN 978-0-6483727-6-9 digital Paperback, 210 x 140 mm, 196 pages Published November 2019. RRP $24.99 print $14.99 digital.… Read More »Still Listening to the Spirit