DO NOT WAIT FOR LEADERS The Justice Education in Catholic Schools (JECS) Committee of the Melbourne Catholic Office for Justice and Peace will again be conducting its annual Student Social Justice Development Day, on Thursday 28th May 2009 at Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy. The event is designed to educate senior secondary students on contemporary social justice issues and their relevance to the Social Teachings of the Church. Schools are invited to nominate four senior students, to be accompanied by a teacher, to attend the forum. There is no cost to the school or students. The forum aligns, as closely as possible, with the theme of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Social Justice Sunday Statement, which in 2009 examines both the issues faced by youth, and the important contribution that youth make to our nation and our world.
Do it alone, person to person
The event is limited, with participation based accepting those schools that reply first. To RSVP to this invitation, please email (
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) or telephone 9926 5710.
In 2008 we celebrated Social Justice Sunday on 28 September. The subject of the 2008 Social Justice Sunday Statement, ‘A Rich Young Nation’, is the challenge of affluence and poverty in Australia.
Austarlian Catholic Bishops 2008 Social Justice Statement
For further details about the Catholic Bishops’ Statement, visit the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council website www.acsjc.org.au or call (02) 8306 3499.
The Christian in the Public Square
Some challenges from the Catholic Social Justice Tradition
Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland
Archbishop Martin of Dublin
Where are the principal points of contact and indeed the principal points of conflict between the Christian message and contemporary culture? Where should the Christian be engaging within the complex public square of our times in order to witness to the light of Christ in the most effective way?
DO NOT WAIT FOR LEADERS The Justice Education in Catholic Schools (JECS) Committee of the Melbourne Catholic Office for Justice and Peace will again be conducting its annual Student Social Justice Development Day, on Thursday 28th May 2009 at Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy. The event is designed to educate senior secondary students on contemporary social justice issues and their relevance to the Social Teachings of the Church. Schools are invited to nominate four senior students, to be accompanied by a teacher, to attend the forum. There is no cost to the school or students. The forum aligns, as closely as possible, with the theme of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Social Justice Sunday Statement, which in 2009 examines both the issues faced by youth, and the important contribution that youth make to our nation and our world. 
