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• W232115274 abstract "The above title was given to this paper because I was invited by the Australian Catholic Historical Society to speak about my work over the past seventeen years as the first Executive Secretary to the Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace (now re-named the Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development, Ecology and Peace, to highlight the Australian Bishops' recent more explicit commitment to addressing ecological and environmental concerns). Reflecting on the paper's title, I see a need for one brief preliminary comment. When I speak of 'serving' the Australian Bishops I am reminded that, in this area even more than others, their own is more a serving than a commanding role. In promoting social justice and human rights, they are offering an essential service to both the Catholic and the wider communities. As the Pope has reminded bishops in his recent memoir, Alzatevi, Andiamo, they must 'serve while governing, and govern while serving'. Historical context My involvement in this activity commenced on 16 October 1987, when I took up my appointment as Executive Secretary to the newly formed Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace (BCJDP). To place the work in a wider historical context, I will summarise the way in which the Church in Australia had carried out its social justice mission at national level in the preceding decades. In the words of Cardinal Clancy, there was 'a continuing and wide-ranging commitment by the Australian hierarchy to the Church's social teaching during the century initiated by Rerum Novarum'. 'He was referring, among other things, to the influence of Pope Leo XIII's 1891 Encyclical Letter on the efforts of Catholic organisations and individuals to support more just conditions for exploited workers during and after Cardinal Moran's period as Archbishop of Sydney; to the growth of socially and politically active lay movements in the 1930s and 1940s following the appearance of Pope Pius XI's Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno; and to the initiative taken by the Australian Bishops from 1940, when they launched the first in a long (and still continuing) series of annual statements marking Social Justice Sunday. It is outside the scope of this paper to go into detail about most of this period. Some of its features have been explored by writers like Patrick O'Farrell, James Murtagh, Bruce Duncan, Paul Ormonde, B. A. Santamaria, James Griffin, Gerard Henderson, Ross Fitzgerald, Jeff Kildea, Paul Smyth and Michael Hogan. A comprehensive history of the Church leadership's undertakings in the social justice field in Australia since 1891 is still awaited, although Michael Hogan in particular has paved the way for such a project with his two books, Australian Catholics: The Social Justice Tradition (1993) and The Sectarian Strand: Religion in Australian History (1987), and his two annotated collections of the annual Social Justice Statements published between 1940 and 1987, Justice Now (1990) and Option for the Poor (1992). (2) Hogan's second collection brings us to the point where I can begin to speak from personal experience of the work carried out in this area by and on behalf of the Australian bishops since May 1987, when the BCJDP was formed at a plenary meeting of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and it was decided to employ a full-time Executive Secretary to service that Committee. These events occurred in a controversial context. Since 1972, an agency named (from 1976) the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) had been operating at national level under the Bishops' supervision. One of the responsibilities of this mainly lay entity had been to continue the traditional annual preparation and publication of social justice statements. Usually endorsed by the Bishops but with some dissenters at times, the documents dealt with such subjects as population, morality in public life, the situation of Australian women, immigration, the rights of indigenous people, unemployment, housing, youth and peacemaking. …" @default.
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• W232115274 title "Serving the Australian Bishops in Their Promotion of Social Justice and Human Rights: 1987-2004" @default.
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