By Kathy Shaw, SPARK Outreach & Engagement Manager The Catholic Church has a history of social teaching. It goes back centuries – impacting on all aspects of our work and family life. In 1892 Pope Leo XIII outlined a ‘just social order’ in response to a lack of basic employee rights and an increasing tendency […]
Poverty
05 MAR 16 – Las Casas Conference ‘A poor church, for the poor?’
The Justice and Peace Commission were proud to be associated with this national level conference that took place at Leeds Trinity University on Saturday March 5th 2016. A full account of what happened at the conference can be read in our March 2016 newsletter (though it did gain some publicity in the national Catholic press […]