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The Falling Torch of Freedom

The Truth will Set you Free

 

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Semper Fidelis
This is a papal fidelity site.
Loyal and Obedient to the
Current Pope and to the
Magisterium united
With Him.

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LOVE, TRUTH, HONOR

Purpose

The purpose of the St. Thomas More Center for Social Justice is to Advocate, Educate, and to Secure the dignity of the human person for the common good that is "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily." (GS 26.1)

Philosophy

The common good consists of three elements (CCC 1925):

  1. Respect for and promotion of the fundamental rights of the person;
  2. prosperity and the development of the spiritual and temporal goods of society; and
  3. the peace and security of the group and its members.

The dignity of the human person requires that everyone "be concerned to create and support institutions that improve the conditions of life" (CCC 1926) and that work to create and ensure social justice as a means to secure it.

Social Justice can be attained only in respecting the transcendent dignity of man. The person represents the ultimate end of society, which is ordered to him:

What is at stake is the dignity of the human person, whose defense and promotion have been entrusted to us by the Creator, and to whom the men and woman at every moment of history are strictly and responsibly in debt." (John Paul II, SRS 47; CCC 1929)

For a more complete discussion on the Catholic Church's doctrine on social justice see the Catechism (CCC) paragraphs 1928-1933.

Projects

Our Agency will eventually tackle projects of Prison Reform, Human Rights issues such as torture and treatment of political and war prisoners, and other human rights issues.

Below are the current operational projects:

Project Falling Torch
—Discussing the erosion of the traditional and constitutional values that built the United States and the danger posed by liberal progressives who are leading our nation into a transformation not envisioned by our Founding Fathers or by the Constitution.

Project CERR (pronounced "care")
(Correct Education, Reform, Rehabilitation)
—Discussing 1) the corrections needed in misundertandings about crime, criminals, and the penal system; 2) the need for education about the realities of these issues; 3) the need for reform of laws and legal philosophies; 4) the need to rehabilitate our soceity to respond with reason with respect to these issues.