Faith & Justice Information

Peace and Justice Programs identifies with the words of the 2008 international Congregation of the Society of Jesus and Pope Benedict XVI. “Working for Christ’s Reign will often mean meeting material needs, but it will always mean much more, because human persons thirst at many levels; and Christ’s mission is directed to human persons of all faiths and no faith. Faith and Justice; it is never one without the other. Human persons need food, shelter, love, relationship, truth, meaning, promise, hope. Human persons need a future in which they can take hold of their full dignity, indeed they need an absolute future, a ‘great hope’ that exceeds every particular hope. We feel ourselves called not only to bring direct help to all in distress but also to restore entire human persons in their integrity, reintegrating them in community and reconciling them with God.”

(GC35 Decree 2; Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi Nov. 30, ’07, 4 and 35.)