Social Justice & Charity

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We live as Christ calls us to live - We put the Gospel of love for others into action in two distinct, but complementary, ways:

• Charitable Works - our "response to immediate needs and specific situations: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, caring for and healing the sick, visiting those in prison, etc." (Deus Caritas Est, no. 31).
  
• Social Justice "concerns the social, political, and economic aspects and, above all, the structural dimension of problems and their respective solutions"  (Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, no. 201).
  

For introductions to Charity & Justice, please read the following documents:

• Charity & Justice In Brief
  
• Catholic Social Teaching Scripture Guide From USCCB

Recommended Reading
Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret Paperback – September 22, 2003
by Edward P. Deberri (Author), James E. Hug (Author), Peter J. Henriot  (Author), Michael J. Schultheis (Author)

At the Catholic Community of Pleasanton, we actively engage in works of charity and pursue social justice individually and in community though the diverse efforts of parish groups including the following and others:

• Social Justice Committee
  
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul
  
• Detention Ministry
  
• St. Mary’s Outreach