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Models of Social Justice

What is Social Justice?

Catholic TeachingWe must foster the Common GoodWe must care for the well being of all people

in the worldPreferential Option for the Poor

Dorothy Day

Born in 1897Women’s rights activist, anarchist,

“bohemian”, writer, social rights activist, and protester

Converted to Catholicism in 1927 – had her daughter baptized

New York CityCatholic WorkerHouses of HospitalityNon violent protest

Dorothy Day

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Didn't Jesus say that the poor would be with us always? "Yes," Day replied, "but we are not content that there should be so many of them

Oscar Romero

Elected Archbishop of San Salvador during a civil war in the country

Wanted to avoid conflictsA friend and fellow priest

was killed for his work against the unjust government and he could no longer be silent

Oscar Romero

Archbishop Romero spoke out against violence, terrorism, torture, and injustice

Petitioned to the Pope and President Carter for help

He was assassinated in 1980 while saying Mass

Oscar Romero

“Aspire not to have more but to be more.”

“Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.”

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Born in 1910 Joined the Sisters of

Loreto as a missionaryLeft the Sisters in order

to serve the poor and was granted permission to found the Missionaries of Charity

Began to care for the sick, homeless, lepers, opened AIDS hospices, and homes for the dying in India

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.