…what concrete steps, if any, could we take to try to bring about economic justice? Before answering this question, let me deal briefly with one more objection. In view of the many grave problems in the world today — the horrible reality of abortion, the probable impending legal acceptance of euthanasia, the attacks on family life, the defection of hundreds of thousands of Catholics from the Church — is now the time for us, for anyone, to work actively for the establishment of economic justice? I believe that it is, or rather, that it can be. I concede that abortion is certainly a graver issue, for it is a worse injustice to take someone’s life than merely his job or his home. But everyone has a different vocation, and those who think that they are called to work in pursuit of justice in economic life ought not to be criticized by, nor to criticize, those who believe they are called to work to prevent the murder of the unborn or the aged or in some other area. There are many legitimate apostolates in Christ’s Mystical Body.
