The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace () was a pontifical council of the Roman Curia dedicated to "action-oriented studies" for the international promotion of justice, peace, and human rights from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church. To this end, it cooperated with various religious institutes and advocacy groups, as well as scholarly, ecumenical, and international organizations.
Effective 1 January 2017, the work of the Council was assumed by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and Cardinal Peter Turkson became Prefect of the Dicastery.
Origin The Second Vatican Council had proposed the creation of a body of the universal Church whose role would be "to stimulate the Catholic Community to foster progress in needy regions and social justice on the international scene". It was in reply to this request that Pope Paul VI established the Pontifical Commission "" by a motu proprio dated 6 January 1967 ().
When the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus of 28 June 1988 reorganized the Roman Curia, Pope John Paul II changed its name from Commission to Pontifical Council and reconfirmed the general lines of its work.
Objectives and mandate defined the objectives and mandate of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in the following terms:
Structure On Saturday, May 16, 2015, Pope Francis named the Reverend Father Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., Director of the Las Casas Institute of Blackfriars in Oxford, England, which does studies on social justice and human rights, as one of the Consultors.
Presidents
Maurice Roy (6 January 1967 - 16 December 1976) Bernardin Gantin (15 December 1976 - 8 April 1984) Roger Etchegaray (8 April 1984 - 24 June 1998) François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận (24 June 1998 - 16 September 2002) Renato Martino (1 October 2002 - 24 October 2009) Peter Turkson (24 October 2009 - 1 January 2017)
Secretaries
Joseph Gremillion (1966–1974) Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (1976 – 5 May 1977) Roger Joseph Heckel, S.J. (1977 – 27 March 1980) Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M. (27 June 1980 – 20 December 1983) Diarmuid Martin (1994 – 17 January 2001) Giampaolo Crepaldi (3 March 2001 – 4 July 2009) Mario Toso, S.D.B. (22 October 2009 - 19 January 2015)
Activities
There was a two-day (June 16 and 17), 2011 "Executive Summit on Ethics for the Business World", which examined Christian views, from the Catholic perspective of Pope Benedict XVI's on financial ethics and possible positive Christian-based alternatives to contemporary status quo secular best practices in the field. The summit was co-hosted by the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University and the Fidelis International Institute, as well as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
According to an online news story on the conference by Carol Glatz of Catholic News Service, on Friday, June 17, 2011:
See also Alberto Suárez Inda Christian finance Operation Spectrum, also known as the 1987 "Marxist Conspiracy", which led the Church to shut down the Justice and Peace Commission in Singapore
References
External links Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace