Welcome to the Canadian Augustinian Centre for Social Justice
The Canadian Augustinian Centre for Social Justice will work to break the silence surrounding the poor. Our goal is to help people recognize the social, political and economic conditions surrounding them and take action against these oppressive elements.
This is accomplished by offering
educational workshops/seminars for service
providers.
We will work to form linkages, networks
and partnerships among service providers so they can
be effective in building a foundation of community support.
“It would be better no one be hungry, and this necessity did not exist”. St. Augustine
Current Highlights
How are the Environment and Social Justice Related?
Come and discover the complex relationship. The Canadian
Augustinian Centre for Social Justice is hosting an evening of
reflection on the "Environment and Social Justice" on Monday, May
28, 2012 at St Brigid's Church.
There will be an outdoor mass at 6pm, followed by a light dinner,
presentations and conversation at 7pm.
For details click here.
To open the flyer click here.
Forum on Housing and Homelessness Final Report
The final report from the Forum on Housing and Homelessness is now available. Please click here to read it.
Rio+20
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development (UNCSD) is being organized a General Assembly
Resolution. The Conference will take place in Brazil on 20-22 June
2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de
Janeiro, and the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on
Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. It is envisaged as a
Conference at the highest possible level, including Heads of State
and Government or other representatives. The Conference will result
in a focused political document.
For further info
on this conference please click here:
Women on the Road to RIO+20
“Women” has been
identified as one of the major groups or communities of interest.
The Augustinian Centre has decided to participate as part of the “Women
on the Road to Rio – Online Community for Women’s Views on the 2012
Earth Summit”.
For more info on Women on the Road to RIO+20 please click here: Women
JUSTICE AND PEACE INTEGRITY OF CREATION LAY NETWORK
This network is
a newly formed group of lay people who are either paid or officially
volunteering for a Religious Order, diocese or Catholic agency and
focusing on justice and peace work. There were about ten people at
the inaugural meeting. They represented Religious Orders such as the
Congregation of Notre Dame, Sisters of Providence, the Diocese of
Ottawa, the Jesuit Forum and Jesuits International and the Canadian
Augustinian Centre for Social Justice (Order of St. Augustine).
For further info on JPIC please click here: JPIC
Book
Joe Gunn, one of
the members from the group “Citizens for Public Justice” brought
copies of the book “Living Justice: a Gospel Response to Poverty”.
It is an ecumenical worship and action guide on poverty and justice
in Canada.
For more
information about this book please click here: