“Pope Francis has sounded a clarion call to the whole Church to go to the peripheries wherever they may be and however they may be conceived. In a sense this is not new. It is the summons of the Bible and has been a theme through the history of the Church. It was central to the vision of the Second Vatican Council and was also key element of the pontificate of St John Paul II.
The Archdiocesan Commission for Justice and Peace was founded in the years after the Council, and since then it has served the Church well in Brisbane and beyond. It has identified issues which should concern the Church; it has helped to name the peripheries; it has proposed ways in which the Church should pursue justice and peace, not with the eyes of ideology but with the eyes of faith.
My hope is that this mandate will help give the Commission new impetus into the future, so that in changing times it may continue to lead the whole Church in the ways of justice and peace as the Gospel surely demands.” Archbishop Mark Coleridge, 18 September 2016
Inspirational Quptes
The life of the community, both
domestically and internationally,
clearly demonstrates that respect for
rights, and the guarantees that follow
from them, are measures of the
common good that serve to evaluate
the relationship between justice and
injustice, development and poverty,
security and conflict.”-Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the United Nations, April, 2008
“It is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say, to the good of all …because we are all really responsible for all.” (Pope John Paul II, On Social Concern, 1987)
“An authentic faith – which is never comfortable or completely personal – always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.”(Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium)
Catholic Justice and Peace Commission of Brisbane 