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'Justice in The World'
Brendan Butler • 1 June 2019
Aim 6 of We Are Church Ireland
Almost 30 years ago the 1971 Synod of Bishops proclaimed in their groundbreaking document "Justice in The World " that for a Christian the work of justice is not an optional extra but is an essential requirement of being Christian.
Further it recognised that if the Church is to witness to justice it must be just in its own structures and must safeguard human rights within them.
Work for justice within the Church and the world are inextricably linked.
Thirty years later while Pope Francis is a witness to justice in our world the institutional Church over which he presides has failed to recognise and preserve human rights within itself.
(These are the relevant sections from their document Justice in The World. While it is written in Vatican -speak it nevertheless is a progressive document.
6. Action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world is a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel, or, in other words, of the Church's mission for the redemption of the human race and its liberation from every oppressive situation.
40. While the Church is bound to give witness to justice, she recognizes that anyone who ventures to speak to people about justice must first be just in their eyes. Hence we must undertake an examination of the modes of acting and of the possessions and life style found within the Church herself.
41. Within the Church rights must be preserved. No one should be deprived of his ordinary rights because he is associated with the Church in one way or another. )
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