Voters at an Australian polling booth. Photo: bigstockphoto.com/NilsV
In Australia where we are fortunate to live in a democracy with a right to vote, Catholic Social Teaching calls us to use our vote wisely by being informed and paying special attention to those who live in disadvantaged and unfair circumstances. Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) have produced a special edition of their justice publication Just Now ahead of the upcoming federal election to focus on this issue. Key issues of concern in Australia include justice for First Nations Peoples, asylum seekers and refugees and people who are aged or living with disability. CRA also state care for our common home by adequate measures to respond to climate change and environmental degradation is a paramount justice issue. CRA president Peter Carroll FMS says in a media release: “It’s our responsibility to make our vote count, and to use that vote in service of the Common Good.”
St Columbans Mission Society is a member of Catholic Religious Australia and endorses this message.
Sr Caroline Vaitkunas RSM
Peace, Ecology and Justice Team member
Columban Mission Centre, Essendon.
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