CATHOLIC NEWS ARTICLES

The Catholic Commission for Social Justice has been around for over 20 years. Take a look through our history and browse our features in the Catholic News – dating back as far as 2009!

2023

This Christmas story…

By Fr Stephan Alexander General Manager, CCSJ and AMMR Imagine this: it’s 4.30 p.m. on Friday, November 10, 2023. I’ve just returned to the presbytery

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2022

CCSJ’s Year End Review!

“No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you

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2021

Give the gift of Love

By Darrion M Narine, Programme Coordinator, CCSJ/AMMR On the darkest day, the star of wonder must continue to burn bright. The world is going through

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A Message of Peace

Message of the Holy Father Francis for the 55th World Peace Day:    Dialogue between generations, education and work: tools for building lasting peace DOWNLOAD

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2020

The virtue of Solidarity 

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI  “While modern society places more importance on one’s own interests regardless of or even to the detriment

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2019

Attacking racism at its root  

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI  “Racism generates inequality…but inequality also fuels racism” —Prof Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Dean, Faculty of Law, UWI STA.  Many

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Jesus, our North Star 

St John of the Cross  By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI  On Saturday, December 14 Archbishop Jason Gordon was the chief celebrant at

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2018

Our hopes for the new year 

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI  We have come to the end of another year. Tomorrow, December 31, my sister, Kamala Ramdeen, Attorney-at-Law

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2017

Promoting human rights 

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI  Saturday, December 9 is International Anti-Corruption Day, and on Sunday, December 10, the world will observe Human

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2016

The rights of Indigenous Peoples 

An indigenous woman greets Pope Francis during a meeting with participants in the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum of the International Fund for Agricultural Development February 15

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2015

2014

Are we following the Star? 

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI  Today, Sunday, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord.  The word “Epiphany” means

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Lessons of our ancestors 

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI  “Let us fervently call upon Mary Most Holy, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, and St

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Nothing is impossible to God 

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI  Today’s Gospel, the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38), leads us to reflect on the humility of Mary, the Mother

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2013

Restoring our sight

By Fr Stephan Alexander, General Manager, CCSJ There are times when at the end of the day we are so tired that our tiredness becomes

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2012

Human Rights 

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI  The theme for Human Rights Day December 10, 2012 is: Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Part 1,

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2011

The line to see Jesus 

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice  I returned to T&T last weekend feeling a bit sad that so many of

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2010

Dreaming of a just society

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice  “…a society unable to accept its suffering members and incapable of helping to share

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2009

Our Prayers Go with Hanna

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice  “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in

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The Challenge of Copenhagen

The UN Climate Change Conference begins in Copenhagen, Denmark, tomorrow, Monday 7 December, and will run until 18 December.  Climate change has many dimensions, for

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