Welcome to Justice Watch
February 9, 2010
Welcome to the Justice Watch Blog.
In this blog we will post news and information on justice issues from current events. Some of the subjects we will report include:
- Plausibility (political correctness) and how it furthers injustice
- Progressivism and how it is a threat to our Constitution
- Prison Reform: How to bring justice and human dignity to the prison system
- Sex Offender issues: how to deal with sex offenders justly and still protect society
- Other issues of justice and the fundamental rights of the person
All reports in this blog will be written from the Catholic point-of-view. All opinions will be consistent with the Catholic worldview and will stand on the foundation of official Catholic Church teaching and from the principles derived from that teaching.
As stated in our Mission Statement:
Blog entries will include comment on current events, analysis of the past, and suggestions for the future. Our goal is to Advocate, Educate, and to Secure the dignity of the human person for the common good that is “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.” (GS 26.1)
The common good consists of three elements (CCC 1925):
- Respect for and promotion of the fundamental rights of the person;
- prosperity, or the development of the spiritual and temporal goods of society; and
- the peace and security of the group and its members.
The dignity of the human person requires that everyone “be concerned to create and support institutions that improve the conditions of life” (CCC 1926) and that work to create and ensure social justice as a means to secure it.
Social Justice can be attained only in respecting the transcendent dignity of man. The person represents the ultimate end of society, which is ordered to him:
What is at stake is the dignity of the human person, whose defense and promotion have been entrusted to us by the Creator, and to whom the men and woman at every moment of history are strictly and responsibly in debt.” (John Paul II, SRS 47; CCC 1929)