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Catholic Social Teaching and Social Justice: Global Solidarity and Development

From the Office for Social Justice St. Paul and Minneapolis

We are one human family. Our responsibilities to each other cross national, racial, economic and ideological differences. We are called to work globally for justice. Authentic development must be full human development. It must respect and promote personal, social, economic, and political rights, including the rights of nations and of peoples It must avoid the extremists of underdevelopment on the one hand, and "superdevelopment" on the other. Accumulating material goods, and technical resources will be unsatisfactory and debasing if there is no respect for the moral, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of the person.

Law Review Articles

Roger Mahoney, A Call to Solidarity:  A Pastoral Statement on Catholic Social Teaching and Affirmative Action, 27 University of West Los Angeles Law Review 301 (1996).

Dan Millisor, Foreword - "Crusaders for Justice, Pilgrims for Peace":  Global Human Rights and Catholic Social Teaching 25 Ohio Northern University Law Review 315 (1999).