Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

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Surname Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
(Pontificium Consilium de Iustitia et Pace)
Seat Piazza San Callisto, 16
00153 Roma

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace ( Latin : Pontificium Consilium de Iustitia et Pace ) was initiated by the Second Vatican Council on January 6, 1967 by the Motu Proprio Catholicam Christi Ecclesiam Paul VI. established as the Pontifical Commission Iustitia et Pax .

With the Motu Proprio Iustitiam et Pacem of December 10, 1976, the commission became a permanent dicastery within the curia .

Under John Paul II the Commission Iustitia et Pax was elevated to the Pontifical Council by the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus of June 28, 1988. The same constitution defined the council's mission as "To promote justice and peace in the world in the light of justice and the social teachings of the Church" .

On August 17, 2016, Pope Francis ordered the dissolution of the Council on January 1, 2017 with the Motu Proprio Humanam progressionem. The previous competences of the Council were taken over from this point on by the newly established Dicastery for the holistic development of man , whose leadership the Pope the previous President Peter Cardinal Turkson transferred.

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With the “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church”, the council published a documentation of Christian social doctrine in 2006 and presented its topicality.

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  1. ↑ Apostolic letter in the form of a Motu Proprio of His Holiness Pope Francis with which the Dicastery is established for the service of the holistic development of man. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , August 31, 2016, accessed August 31, 2016 .
  2. ^ Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church , Herder Verlag , Freiburg im Breisgau, 2006, ISBN 3-451-29078-2