Welcome to the Birmingham Diocesan Justice & Peace Commission Website.
The Commission aims to inform on the theology, spirituality and practice of Justice & Peace throughout the Birmingham Roman Catholic Archdiocese.
The Commission particularly encourages parishes and schools to get involved in the Justice & Peace movement. It covers areas as diverse as global issues such as cancelling the debts of the world's poorest countries; the International Peace Movement; environmental issues; housing; homelessness; supporting refugees and asylum seekers and human rights.
Within this site you can find information about important dates within the Justice & Peace year, links to other agencies involved with Justice & Peace and resources to download to help in your existing or new Justice & Peace group. Newly included in these resources is a PDF downloadable copy of the 2012/13 events calendar and other agencies.
CAFOD LENT APPEAL 2012
Lent Fast Day in 2012 takes place on Friday 2nd
March.
This year we are being asked to remember how lucky we are
in having clean drinking water on tap every minute of every day, unlike many of
our sisters and brothers; every 20 seconds a child dies somewhere through
drinking dirty water and CAFOD are aiming to allow more families in poor
countries to live sustainably and have access to essential services which we take
for granted.
Please consider
being especially generous this year
as the Government will match all your donations during Lent this year pound for pound at no cost to you or to
us!
Thank you
The date for the Eighth Annual Assembly has been set for Saturday 13th October 2012, in St Peter's School in Solihull as before.
Entitled “Inspiration from Vatican II” it aims to provide a great opportunity to reflect on some of the teaching of Vatican II and the inspiration it continues to offer us.
Please make a note of this date in your diaries and plan to attend, hopefully with your colleagues. Further details of the full Programme and Workshops will be available soon.
The 7thBirmingham DiocesanJustice & Peace Assembly was held on Saturday 15th October2011, entitled“Becoming a Just Church”.
Our Guest Speaker was Professor Tina Beattie, Director of the Digby Stuart Research Centre for Catholic Studies at Roehampton University.
A local response was made by Brian Davies, a member of the Birmingham Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission.
Professor Beattie has very kindly provided her notes for the talk for delegates and interested others to read, but these are not part of a developed academic paper and should not be published beyond this group.
These notes, with links to images used in Professor Beattie's address, together with Brian Davies' Response, can be accessed from this website from the "Documents to Download" tab on the left, then "Assembly 2011".
Newsletters Four-page Newsletters are generally published Quarterly both in hard copy for postal distribution and in pdf format for EMail. Interim Mini-Newsletters with items of immediate interest are sent by EMail to all recipients on our distribution list. All are available to read and download from the tab on the left - Documents to Download.
Commission Meetings The Commission meets throughout the year, usually at quarterly intervals. Copies of the Minutes are available to read and download from the tab on the left - Documents to Download.
The Encyclical Letter from our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI "Caritas in Veritate"
is available to read and download from the Documents to Download tab
(left) both in full and as a summary produced by Progressio.
"Choosing the Common Good":
statement by the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, is available
to read and to download from the "Documents to Download" tab at the
left.
