Catholic Social Teachings

Calls us to:

• Actively accompany people who have been pushed to the margins by giving them a hand up to live their unique lives to the full

• Challenge individualism and consumerism

• Advocate for change

• Keep this principle at the centre of our work

Calls us to:

• Consider that the good of all is dependent on the good of each one

• Continue to work with people in local communities through our conference structure in order to build

  a stronger society

Calls us to:

• Promote and develop local conferences and channel feedback from members

• Focus our advocacy in disadvantaged communities or where voices have been silenced

• Understand that the Conference is closest to the person in need and is best placed to make the

  decision about how to help

• Observe that this principle is at work in the ‘council’ structure from regional to national councils

Calls us to:

• Accompany people living with poverty across national, racial, religious and ideological boundaries

• Identify and address social and economic factors that cause marginalisation, or continue to

  marginalise people

• Restore the dignity of people living with poverty and empower them to participate in society through

  cultural, economic and political processes

Calls us to:

• Keep people living with poverty central to our thinking

• Guard against individualism

• Engage in witness, accompaniment, advocacy and action

Calls us to:

• Cross borders, to build friendships, to value difference, to identify deeper communion

• Celebrate, rather than possess; nurture, rather than exploit

• Centre on others, rather than on our self

• Be accountable because of the urgency of the challenge