Loss of trust is our fault, too, says RC election guidance
POLITICIANS alone cannot bring about change, and the electorate must not be seduced by the notion that social problems are for the Government to deal with, Roman Catholic bishops suggested in a report published on Wednesday.
Without a wider debate about a shared vision for society, electioneering “may well be confined to bitter arguments over issues of particular policy”, the RC Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Revd Vincent Nichols, warns in the introduction to Choosing the Common Good, from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
There is self-censure, too, in a document that expands on Roman Catholic social teaching on a just and civil society, highlights mutual dependency, and calls for society to “rediscover the centrality of personal responsibility and the gift of service to others”. Read more
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