Mission
The Office for Peace and Justice holds the mandate from Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. to coordinate Archdiocesan advocacy and ministry regarding the Social Teachings of the Church. This office assists Catholics in knowing their faith and addresses issues of poverty, faithful citizenship, human rights, domestic policy, international development, peace, and care for Creation. In promoting respect for human life and dignity, the office works though five main programs: Justice Education, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic Relief Services, Domestic Violence and Parish Sharing. In addition, this office resources other agencies regarding the Social Doctrine of the Church.
There must be made available to all men everything necessary for leading a life truly human, such as food, clothing, and shelter; the right to choose a state of life freely and to found a family, the right to education, to employment . . . . . Furthermore, whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or willful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed. They poison human society, but they do more harm to those who practice them than those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are supreme dishonor to the Creator.
Gaudium et Spes, (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World), Vatican Council II.
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Director
Nicholas C.
Lund-Molfese
3525 S. Lake Park Ave.
Chicago
IL
60653
Phone:
(312) 534-8390
Fax:
(312) 534-3856
Email: nmolfese@archchicago.org
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