Justice as New Evangelization
The mission of the Church is to bring all people into a relationship with God and also to transform and sanctify the society in which we live with all its realities and challenges. Justice is one of the virtues that will help us to transform the world. Justice is a term that has been used to portray a number of ideas, including fairness, quality, and lawfulness. Distributive Justice is concerned with the distribution of money or honor or other resources that are divided among all who have a share in some public organization. In cases of distributive justice, things must be determined carefully. As believers in the New Evangelization, we must ask ourselves, “How do we today follow the call and summons of Jesus to seek out the stranger, heal the sick and welcome the weary, homeless and hungry?” The New Evangelization calls every Christian to respond to this calling of Jesus Christ in justice and charity. By this virtue, we as Catholics are bound by Our Creator God to look after our fellow brethren who are in greatly urgent needs with our generosity towards them in their necessities. It means that as a Christian we are a call to protect human dignity. Evangelium Vitae is very specific regarding human dignity “In the life of man, God's image shines forth anew and is again revealed in all its fullness at the coming of the Son of God in human flesh. "Christ is the image of the invisible God" (Col 1:15), he "reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature" (Heb 1:3). He is the perfect image of the Father.” (36) we are called to protect the human dignity, it is clear that in our time many things became relative, but Life is real, one cannot categorize people just only as a simple object, people are human beings, human beings created to continue in God’s plans.