Edmund Rice Justice Bulletin

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23 November 2005

GLOBAL NETWORKING FOR JUSTICE - KOLKATA SYMPOSIUM

This will be the final Justice Bulletin for the year as I am about to leave for India to take part in the Flare Up Like a Flame Social Justice Symposium to be attended by about 130 members of the Edmund Rice Network from all around the world, in Kolkata commencing later this month.

Wishing peace, joy and blessings to all readers of this bulletin and their families for this Christmas season.

It is intended to resume publication of the bulletins in late Jan.

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About this site

This blogsite had its origin as a means of linking students from Christian Brothers Schools in Victoria, Australia who attended the Social Justice days I organised or who participated in school retreats I helped facilitate.

It arose from a belief that as well as charity, advocacy for human rights can also be a compassionate response for those who experience injustice and deprivation. In other words we can address root causes rather than just symptoms.

After moving to Geneva to take up a position with Edmund Rice International (ERI) I decided to maintain the bulletin with its expanded mailing list but to give it an added focus linking it with the work of ERI

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Quotes

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
- Dom Helder Camara

“Action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world fully appear to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the gospel”
-World Synod of Bishops “Justice in the World” 1972

"(The Church) cannot and must not remain on the sidelines in the fight for justice ……
The direct duty to work for a just ordering of society .... is proper to the lay faithful. As citizens of the State, they are called to take part in public life in a personal capacity. So they cannot relinquish their participation “in the many different economic, social, legislative, administrative and cultural areas, which are intended to promote organically and institutionally the common good.”
-Benedict XVI, “Deus Caritas Est”

Links

A Just Australia - Australians for Just Refugee Programs

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

Australian Catholic Social Justice Council

Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation

Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education

Edmund Rice International

Faith Doing Justice

Franciscans International

Jubilee Australia

Oxfam

Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans

Parliament of Australia

Poverty - causes of world poverty

St Vincent de Paul Society

Catholic Religious Australia

JPIC North America

Website of the Global Edmund Rice Network

Email me:-

bpbond@edmundrice.org

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