Sentences with phrase «achieve justice as»
«The Church also ought to ask why are they poor, why are they oppressed and how do we change our social and political structures to achieve justice as an outworking of the kingdom of God.»
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«As Hispanic Catholics in the U.S achieve upward mobility, they may become a little more conservative on social justice and concern for the poor,» Dillon says, «but currently many of the issues that are especially important to Catholics in Latin America are also very important to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.»
That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.
Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.
(2) People who advocate the use of nonviolence as a force in society to achieve social justice, represented by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., «scandalously» (I Cor.
We think of heaven as a place where perfect love will render justice unnecessary by showing how impossible it is to achieve in human terms, rather than as the place where the power of love will make justice finally possible.
Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.
The Aristotelian categories had simultaneously achieved three things: they had done justice to nature, they had done justice to human nature, and most importantly they had done justice to human being as a part of nature.
To show how tyrannical any country that aimed at achieving perfect justice — even at the expense of family, friendship, and the self - consciousness of persons born to love other persons and die as particular persons — would be, Socrates turned the rulers into gods and most people into animals to be controlled.
Justification by faith in the realm of justice means that we will not regard the pressures and counterpressures, the tensions, the overt and covert conflicts by which justice is achieved and maintained as normative in the absolute sense; but neither will we ease our conscience by seeking to escape from involvement in them.
Achieving Our Country is a poignant cry for the left to return to what Rorty thinks is the real business of politics, which he frankly describes as «social justice» understood in terms of redistributing wealth.
Our decade has not outlived Niebuhr's insight that personal and social sanctification are not easily achieved, that we are not as good as we think we are, that only God is sufficient, and that there remains a tension between justice and love.
God's righteousness is his justice, and his justice is manifest in his working to put down the unrighteous, expose idols, show mercy, and achieve reconciliation in a new order which expresses man s dignity as bearer of the divine image.
White Northern liberals represented themselves as the friends of the Negro and deceived King and many other blacks into believing that they really wanted to achieve racial justice in America.
Achieved good, accomplished justice, truth in its fullness: all these are forever «safe» in God, to whom alone (as a biblical text puts it) belongs immortality.
Indeed, Ryan's radical budget and ideologically driven plan to end Medicare as a guaranteed benefit program did what decades of work by Catholic social justice advocates had never been able to achieve: It activated a gut level Catholic concern for solidarity and the common good.
And I am concerned that the Church is indeed conforming to the world — every time it preaches violence as a way to achieve justice, every time it glorifies celebrity and success, every time it reduces womanhood to subordination and manhood to power, every time it justifies cruelty or unkindness in the name of proving a point.
As one sign of God's Kingdom, healing through prayer is no more magic than peace and social justice are magic — and no easier to achieve.
The Bible is conducive to democracy because it sees man as a responsible sinner (both words are important) whose power must be restrained if justice is to be achieved.
As it is understood in this century, the common good can be achieved only through a delicate balance of foresight, self - sacrifice, self - actualization and justice.
The second question is related to the above: a «free market» baseline of justice is about procedure - how outcomes are arrived at, who is involved in making decisions, has rights over their own actions, how actions are agreed by parties etc. (or something like that) whereas equality is an outcome, that may or may not be achieved under various procedural arrangements, and may or may not be viewed as desirable by people who hold different views about what forms of society - specifications over who has what rights to do what to who.
LAGOS — As President Muhammadu Buhari is set to touch ground today in Ogun State on a two - day state visit, former Attorney - General and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN), has lent his voice on how he will achieve success in anti-corruption fight and governance.
«As you are all aware, discipline is the bedrock of the military profession and to have a disciplined body of officers and men, there must be justice because it is when there is justice that discipline can be achieved.
Her groundbreaking work as an Associate Justice with the Court of Appeals is but a small, albeit significant, aspect of what she achieved in the legal field.
«Today, on the first day of 2018, we celebrate how far Rockland County has come in just four short years and, as importantly, how much more we will achieve going forward,» Day said after taking the oath of office, administered by Clarkstown Justice Craig E. Johns.
(3) Neither the Executive Committee nor the County Leader shall designate, nominate or propose any candidate for judicial offices which are to be elected county - wide in New York County, or which are to be proposed for appointment by the Mayor of the City of New York or by the Governor of the State of New York, exclusive of recommendations for interim appointment by the Mayor or the Governor, unless such candidate shall have been approved in that calendar year for such office by the independent panel., except that once a candidate for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court has been reported as highly qualified by at least two of the last four independent screening panels for that office, that candidate shall be considered as having been approved by the panel for such office during each of the four calendar years after the year in which the candidate shall have last achieved such status, (not counting a year in which there are no vacancies for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court other than a vacancy resulting from the expiration of the term of office of a justice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an appliJustice of the Supreme Court has been reported as highly qualified by at least two of the last four independent screening panels for that office, that candidate shall be considered as having been approved by the panel for such office during each of the four calendar years after the year in which the candidate shall have last achieved such status, (not counting a year in which there are no vacancies for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court other than a vacancy resulting from the expiration of the term of office of a justice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an appliJustice of the Supreme Court other than a vacancy resulting from the expiration of the term of office of a justice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an applijustice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an applijustice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an applijustice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an application.
According to him, we must define our humanity by fairness, equity and justice as no iota of development could be achieved in a society where these virtues are missing.
Cuomo pointed to the failed effort to achieve juvenile justice reform, as well as a plan he proposed at the start of the year — providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for families earning less than $ 125,000.
Britain's courts could be privatised as part of radical efforts to achieve savings at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), according to a report.
Modernisation is too often caricatured as privatisation in this book, and fails to grasp that New Labour's reform agenda was not in opposition to social justice, but the only way in a changing world to achieve it.»
Representing more than 121,000 active members and 50,000 retirees, DC 37 considers environmental justice a union issue, and today's forum approached fossil fuel divestment as a strategy to achieve climate justice.
As Judge Davis concludes, «one can be hopeful that this latest contribution to the ever growing literature will further the ultimate goal of our criminal justice system: to assure, as much as humanly possible, the exoneration of the innocent, while achieving, fairly and transparently, the conviction of the guilty.&raquAs Judge Davis concludes, «one can be hopeful that this latest contribution to the ever growing literature will further the ultimate goal of our criminal justice system: to assure, as much as humanly possible, the exoneration of the innocent, while achieving, fairly and transparently, the conviction of the guilty.&raquas much as humanly possible, the exoneration of the innocent, while achieving, fairly and transparently, the conviction of the guilty.&raquas humanly possible, the exoneration of the innocent, while achieving, fairly and transparently, the conviction of the guilty.»
David Wenham casts off the mantle of Faramir as the uptight, lip - curling Eden Fletcher, who seeks order and justice without really understanding what is needed to achieve either.
As his biographer, Genna Rae McNeil, noted in Groundwork, Houston trained his students to become superb lawyers and «social engineers» who used the Constitution and laws to help African - Americans achieve our rightful place in the nation and to make sure the system guaranteed justice and freedom for everyone.
As the push for every student to succeed continues, we must not achieve equality or equity at the expense of justice.
When the Prime Minister spoke last Friday he made clear that we would govern as One Nation with a clear commitment to social justice, he, like me, firmly believes that education is the key to achieving that.
As a YES Prep employee, you will achieve jaw - dropping results, create pathways to opportunity for our students, build transformative relationships, and eliminate educational inequities to advance social justice.
lists the eight points from the Nuremberg trial fact sheet followed by statements that represent some of the main issues that the Allied powers confronted as they tried to figure out how to achieve justice after the war.
A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.
Since its inception as a family foundation, The Schott Foundation has possessed an unwavering commitment to equity and justice that guides its mission to develop and strengthen a broad - based and representative movement to achieve fully resourced, high quality PreK — 12 public education for all children.
Scenario 3: the student has a sincere interest in social justice and societal change, and believes that working as a TFA recruit will help them achieve those goals: the recruit's goals are not aligned with the organization's goals, creating tensions that lead to non-productive disruption among the teaching force and in the schools (see: Gary Rubenstein's work, among others).
Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), (E.O. 12898 or E.O.) requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), (E.O. 12898 or E.O.) requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.»
Executive Order (EO) 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.»
A focus on current and future housing initiatives demonstrates how New Yorkers continue to promote subsidized housing as a way to achieve diversity, neighborhood stability, and social justice.
Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,
In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.
As the founder of an organization known as «350.org,» he leads a global network of climate change zealots who believe that persecuting energy companies involved in the production of fossil fuels is necessary to achieve «climate justice.&raquAs the founder of an organization known as «350.org,» he leads a global network of climate change zealots who believe that persecuting energy companies involved in the production of fossil fuels is necessary to achieve «climate justice.&raquas «350.org,» he leads a global network of climate change zealots who believe that persecuting energy companies involved in the production of fossil fuels is necessary to achieve «climate justice.»
Although distributive justice would also allow for other morally relevant considerations to be considered in allocating ghg emissions that diverge from strict equality, including such considerations as historical ghg emissions levels, these other considerations can be built into a C&C framework either by negotiating the convergence dates in a C&C regime or in side - agreements on such issues as financing technologies for low - emitting nations at levels that would allow them to achieve per capita emissions limitations.
Developing and Utilizing a Social Justice Lens in Order to Achieve Global Goals for Sustainability As evidenced by this national moment, a lack of critical understanding of social justice issues makes achieving global sustainability goals near impoJustice Lens in Order to Achieve Global Goals for Sustainability As evidenced by this national moment, a lack of critical understanding of social justice issues makes achieving global sustainability goals near impojustice issues makes achieving global sustainability goals near impossible.
Although some nations have acknowledged their ethical duties to base their INDC on ethically justifiable criteria, almost all INDC submissions have not explained how specific emissions reductions commitments link to a specific desired atmospheric ghg concentration levels and its associated carbon budget that will provide some level of confidence that a warming limit will be achieved nor why their ghg emissions reductions commitment is fair as a matter of distributive justice.