JULY 2015 ISSUE 169
Welcome to the monthly news and
information briefing from the Australian
Catholic Social Justice Council, the social justice and human rights
agency of the Catholic Church in Australia. This email contains highlights
only. The full Briefing is online.
IN THIS ISSUE
Laudato Si' may be as ground breaking as
Pope Leo XIII's 1891 Encyclical, Rerum Novarum. Pope Leo
addressed the disastrous and unequal impact of the industrial revolution on
poor workers and their families. As it was in the late 1800s, so it is today.
Pope Francis is addressing the great crisis of post-industrial times with his
gaze firmly on the most vulnerable individuals. Read
more
CatholicSocialTeaching.org.uk
is an initiative of livesimply, which seeks to make more explicit the link
between faith and action, so that global social justice will become a
mainstream concern for a more diverse range of Catholics. Read
more
This year's Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Social
Justice Statement is entitled 'For Those Who've Come Across the Seas: Justice
for refugees and asylum seekers'. An order form, a letter from the President of
the Bishops Conference and summary material are available on our website. Read
more
NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day
Observance Committee. Its origins can be traced to the emergence of Aboriginal
groups in the 1920s which sought to increase awareness in the wider community
of the status and treatment of Indigenous Australians. Read
more
NATIONAL | NSW | ACT | VIC | QLD | SA | WA | TAS | NT
Western Sydney Year 12 Sheneli Meneripityage Dona joined
delegates from 54 countries in New York for the United Nations Special General
Assembly on Youth. Read
more
Recognition of these flags was recommended in Recognition
Rights and Reform, a report to Government on native title social justice
measures. They were officially proclaimed in the Commonwealth Gazette on on
this day. Read
more
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE COUNCIL
PO Box 7836, Alexandria NSW 2015.
Tel: (02) 8306 3499, Fax: (02) 8306 3498, Email: admin@acsjc.org.au Website:
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