Social Justice in a Religious Forum

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Huh? Rather than asking where social Justice is, why not ask where God’s Justice is?
 
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That would entail things that many people, including “social justice workers,” wouldn’t want to hear.
 
Because God is just with us and requires us to act justly toward Him, but also toward one another. Likewise it follows that since man is a social being and lives in a society, it follows that he must be just toward his society and his society must be just toward him.
 
Because Jesus said that the two greatest commandments were to love God and to love your neighbor. Matthew 22: 36-40. The two are tied together.

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Because “God’s Justice” could cover social justice, liturgy and sacraments, and the entire Catholic Living category, and probably a few others.
 
This is a Catholic religious forum, social justice is part of Church teaching. Just because some people co-opted it to mean something else, doesn’t mean it isn’t important to Catholics
 
FYI, here is how the Church defines social justice.

CCC:
SOCIAL JUSTICE

1928 Society ensures social justice when it provides the conditions that allow associations or individuals to obtain what is their due, according to their nature and their vocation. Social justice is linked to the common good and the exercise of authority.

Divini Redemptoris
Now it is of the very essence of social justice to demand for each individual all that is necessary for the common good. But just as in the living organism it is impossible to provide for the good of the whole unless each single part and each individual member is given what it needs for the exercise of its proper functions, so it is impossible to care for the social organism and the good of society as a unit unless each single part and each individual member - that is to say, each individual man in the dignity of his human personality - is supplied with all that is necessary for the exercise of his social functions.
https://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-.../hf_p-xi_enc_19370319_divini-redemptoris.html
 
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